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Early Work
For a truly great idea, virtually nothing can go wrong. And if anything goes so wrong that it prevents the idea from rising, then one can totally relax: It could not have been such a great idea in the first place.
Justin Murphy • On Idea Hoarding
For the human makers of things, the incompletenesses and inconsistencies of our ideas become clear only during implementation. Thus it is that writing, experimentation, "working out" are essential disciplines for the theoretician.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
That's made harder by the fact that the best startup ideas seem at first like bad ideas.
Paul Graham • Black Swan Farming
I should mention one sort of initial tactic that usually doesn't work: the Big Launch. I occasionally meet founders who seem to believe startups are projectiles rather than powered aircraft, and that they'll make it big if and only if they're launched with sufficient initial velocity. They want to launch simultaneously in 8 different publications, ... See more