innovation

The answer, I think, is what it almost always is: that inventors are simply extremely rare. People can have all the incentives, all the materials, all the mechanical skills, and even all the right general notions of how things work. As we’ve seen, even Savery himself was apparently inspired by the same ancient experiment as everyone else who worked... See more

Bill Gates on Microsoft's "hard-core detractors" December 4, 1993

The idea in my head vs the first draft https://t.co/Y9s0q5SVup