Great minds do NOT think alike.

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Entry: Thought.

A social philosopher once said: "Great minds think alike".
Fortunately, this is wrong.
Educated minds think alike this is true, after all they have been
trained to, but great minds are always, when it comes right down to
it, cracked.
They think the thoughts others cannot even begin to grasp, smash
together the concepts that have been kept apart by jealous, sweaty
academics and introduce generations to ideas so obvious, so simple,
that even the lowliest neurosurgeon will slap their forehead in
despair and shout "Why didn't I think of that?"
This kind of thinking comes from (all students look away now) not
paying a blind bit of attention to books and lectures.
Instead, recognized great thinkers across the galaxy admit that most
of their formative years were spent staring out of windows and looking
at clouds, birds and, in some cases, into the R&D laboratory of the
company next door...

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Enjoy. Tim.