2 Quotes.
If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too.
A Einstein
On two occasions I have been asked by members of Parliament, 'Pray, Mr.
Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers
come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of
ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
From some post at Slashdot.org
posted by sreedhar @ 9:41 AM
1 Comments:
ok the first one, thats not how it works. Atleast in many cases right now.
You have a bunch ideas, I will steal all your ideas, implement them and make a zillion pfennigs ( thus, eliminating the basic hypothesis of demarcation Einstein constructed to contrast pfennigs and ideas) - you are a zillion pfennigs poorer than me - M$FT.
(or)
I have an idea (luckily for me its patented in the depths of arcane verbiage at the USPTO). You have implemented it and made a zillion pfennigs, now I can screw you over patent-infringement and make you a zillion pfennigs poorer than me - NTP Software (against blackberry)
Kind of like the Yin and Yang.
Ok where are we now?
-Sasi
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