stealing ideas

The Currency of Ideas is Monopoly Money

Ideas hold no value.  Only ideas acted upon.  The person who sees something and says to you disappointed, arrogantly, “That was myidea!”  Is the same person who walks through MoMA and scoffs, “I could do that.”

My response to those people, and indeed I am one of them:

Why didn’t you?

There is no use for idea people in a web-based society where real trade skills are no longer needed, market research can be done in real-time, and cost of entry is close to Chris Anderson’s free.  There is use only for people who do.  For people who bring ideas to reality.

The problem with most of our ideas is that we’ve never realized one of them.