[lit-ideas] Re: "Honesty Is The Best Policy"
- From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:24:34 -0400
>A.A. The same idea coming up concurrently in separate places is not
>unprecedented. Picasso and Braque both came up with cubism at about the
>same time independently. Likewise I believe that Newton and another
>person both discovered calculus independently at about the same time.
It was Leibniz.
>Newton, of course, is credited.
Yes, and like a true bastard, he NEVER let GWVL forget it.
>I'm sure there are other examples.
I came up with the idea for drunk driving tests -- you get to take a test
when you are drunk and they write your threshold capacity on your driver's
license -- and then I listened to a Comedian (Doug Stanhope) and he
mentioned it. DAMN, another patent down the drain. There's always my
grapefruit-eating glove.
>An idea whose time has come is pretty powerful.
An idea is an actual species, but not when we are talking about Derrida.
deriding,
p
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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Leamington, ON
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