Drawing Room

Good ideas are the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks themselves to be so well endowed with it (especially, here in Silicon Valley) that those who are the most difficult to please in everything else are not at all wont to desire more of it than they have. It is not likely that everyone is mistaken in this. Rather, it provides evidence that the power of judging well and of distinguishing good ideas from bad ones is naturally equal in all of us, and that the diversity of our opinions does not arise from the fact that some people are more intelligent or educated than others , but solely from the fact that we lead our thoughts along different paths (through experience) and do not take the same things into consideration. For it is not enough to have a good idea; the main thing is to apply it well.

For myself, I have never presumed that my ideas were in any respect more perfect than others. In fact, I have often desired to have as keen and distinct an imagination as some other people. But I desire to blog in this site my thoughts and to represent my life in them as if in a picture, so that all my friends may judge them for themselves; and thus, that, learning from the common response the opinions one will have of it, this may be a new means of teaching myself, which I shall add to those that I am accustomed to using. Good idea?