No really worthwhile human achievement has ever been instigated on the
basis of demonstrable cost-effectiveness. I wouldn't go so far as to
say also that nothing worthwhile has ever been done in the pursuit of
money - Rembrandt and Beethoven accepted commissions, after all - but
most things that are really worth doing involve little or no financial
reward.
And, of course, with no commissions Rembrandt and Beethoven would still
have painted and composed, because their primary motivation was a desire
to create something worthwhile regardless of the reward...
Best wishes
Adrian
Dr Adrian Bowyer
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensab
http://reprap.org
John Morewood wrote:
> If everything is free then where is the incentive to move forward -
> we will just stagnate - not much fun in that ?
Received on Thu Jan 07 22:22:23 2010
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Fri Mar 11 2011 - 05:24:18 EET