Ideas

“Don’t worry about other people stealing your ideas. If you’re ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” -- Howard Aiken, IBM Engineer

It is a common practice in academic or industrial world that folks do steal ideas. I view the habit as a mental impotency and it is addictive. We are living in a creativity dafecit world. Sometimes, managers admitted to me in private that "I am too old. I don't have new ideas."

Watching people stealing ideas could be fun. Sometimes, people spread the half-baked ideas or wrong ideas to back to the source as 'new ideas' without understanding.