Generally speaking, whom do you admire more: the person who initially conceives an invention, or the person who perfects it?
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I feel like it’s possible to invent something with a flash of insight, but perfecting can only come from rigour. This may be a bias on my part, as someone who is more perfecter than inventor in most things
this is probably closest to my view, although as you all point out, context is everything... it’s hard to say too much at this level of abstraction! fwiw I’m an inventor and I still have more admiration for the people who perfect things (generally)
