* If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
@ 2025-03-20 15:57 Niocláisín Cóilín de Ghlostéir
2025-03-20 22:06 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
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From: Niocláisín Cóilín de Ghlostéir @ 2025-03-20 15:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Two hours ago Professor Arvind Narayanan uploaded to LinkedIn:
"ideas are a dime a dozen and everyone else is too obsessed with their
own ideas to pay attention to yours. As computing pioneer Howard Aiken
said, "Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are
any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.""
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* Re: If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
2025-03-20 15:57 If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats Niocláisín Cóilín de Ghlostéir
@ 2025-03-20 22:06 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2025-03-20 22:58 ` Niocláisín Cóilín de Ghlostéir
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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro @ 2025-03-20 22:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:57:50 +0100, Niocláisín Cóilín de Ghlostéir wrote:
> Two hours ago Professor Arvind Narayanan uploaded to LinkedIn:
> "ideas are a dime a dozen and everyone else is too obsessed with their
> own ideas to pay attention to yours. As computing pioneer Howard Aiken
> said, "Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are
> any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.""
What’s important is not the idea, but the execution. Prove your idea
works, and maybe more people will pay attention to you.
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2025-03-20 22:06 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
@ 2025-03-20 22:58 ` Niocláisín Cóilín de Ghlostéir
2025-03-21 0:07 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
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From: Niocláisín Cóilín de Ghlostéir @ 2025-03-20 22:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hello,
An execution is of course important, but Ada works without being popular.
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2025-03-20 22:58 ` Niocláisín Cóilín de Ghlostéir
@ 2025-03-21 0:07 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro @ 2025-03-21 0:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:58:39 +0100, Niocláisín Cóilín de Ghlostéir wrote:
> An execution is of course important, but Ada works without being
> popular.
Ada is the execution of an idea. Imagine if someone came up and said
“let’s take Pascal as the basis for a high-reliability, real-time
programming language”. Who would believe you?
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