If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

Quote of the Week 34

“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.”
―  Linus Pauling 

Source: Timespinner Press (Michael Dobson)


Triggered by the use of a variant of the quote in a recent talk "Can LLMs Reason & Plan?" (slide 24) by Subbarao Kambhampati.

“I get many ideas, and I throw away the bad ones.”

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