Failure Is So Much More Interesting Because

Nobody Wants The Expenditure Of A Lease On A Factory Which Lasts 21 Years. You Can't Plan 21 Years Ahead.

If You Didn't Have Patents, No One Would Bother To Spend Money On Research And Development. But With Patents, If Someone Has A Good Idea And A Competitor Can't Copy It, Then That Competitor Will Have To Think Of Their Own Way Of Doing It. So Then, Instead Of Just One Innovator, You Have Two Or Three People Trying To Do Something In A New Way.

An Inventor's Path Is Chorused With Groans, Riddled With Fist-banging And Punctuated By Head Scratches.

Arbitrary Benchmarks Cheat Kids Out Of A Fulfilling Education.

If You Can't Be Unconventional, Be Obtuse. Be Deliberately Obtuse, Because There Are 5 Billion People Out There Thinking In Train Tracks, And Thinking What They Have Been Taught To Think.