Loading...The exponential growth of ideas
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” — George Bernard Shaw
Such a great quote by GBS here. share this https://www.gutenberg.org/files/943/943-h/943-h.htm
Wrong – “It doesn’t sound like the kind of thing Shaw would say although he did like mind games,” Jay Tunney, author of “The Prizefighter and the Playwright: Gene Tunney and Bernard Shaw,” said in an email to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “In fact he was highly analytical. But this doesn’t feel like him.
The website Quote Investigator traced the expression back to a 1917 magazine advertisement, though variations may have appeared earlier. In this early version, the word “dollar” was used instead of “apple.”
You can never have too many ideas – can you?
yes
you sure can he he !