"Genius is 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration":
Thomas Alva Edison
Summary
Ideas cost very little to generate and without substantial additional effort, come
to nothing.
But new ideas are the only starting point for new things - so which is more important, coming up with the idea or making it concrete?
Both are necessary and as important as one another - without the other, neither will lead anywhere.
Criticism of others ideas without substantial evidence,proof, counter example or working demonstration is churlish.
"Put up or Shut up"
is a reasonable maxim for critiquing ideas.
Ideas only take real form and viability if they are the subject of robust and probing debate and defence. It is better to fail early, amongst friends, than publicly and spectacularly.
It's easy to confuse a profusion of ideas with "invention".
The marker of "usefulness" is the follow-through from ideation to implementation.
