Arthur C. Clarke famously said, “Every revolutionary idea evokes three stages of reactions: At first people say, ‘It’s completely impossible.’ Then they say, ‘Maybe it’s possible to do it, but it would cost too much.’ Finally they say, ‘I always thought it was a good idea.’” Arthur Schopenhauer’s original version is: “New truths go through three stages. First they are ridiculed, second they are violently opposed, and then, finally, they are accepted as self-evident.”
