This viewpoint has a distinct influence from Heinlein, who said both that A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill (a viewpoint I touched upon in my other blog last week, The Decline and Fall of the Idealistic Spark) and I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
In these situations, past experience may not help, says Christopher. “What is needed most is insane determination to see something through when failure is a more likely result than success.
The best part of it is the box with “You put in other details”. I would point out that engineers get these sort of requests all the time. Oh, they’re more professionally written and not so crudely drawn, but just about every engineer has had a run-in with a boss or client who mistook a desire for an idea and then asked the engineer to close the gap between the two.
RT @lucianop: “We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?” ~Jean Cocteau #quote