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[[File:Bitcoin.png|400px|A [[fashionable idea]], yesterday.thumb|center]]
[[File:Bitcoin.png|400px|A [[fashionable idea]], yesterday.|thumb|center]]
}}{{maxim|Disdain fashionable things. Especially ideas.}} [[Fashionable idea]]s are the ones that, [[Q.E.D.]], ''did'' come down in the last shower. They lie there, sparkling like jewels in the fresh grass. Most of them will evaporate but one or two will by capillary action, soak into the soil and may nourish the roots of something profound. But — better to wait for that to germinate than drink it off the blades before it can, right?
}}{{maxim|Disdain fashionable things. Especially ideas.}} [[Fashionable idea]]s are the ones that, [[Q.E.D.]], ''did'' come down in the last shower. They lie there, sparkling like jewels in the fresh grass. Most of them will evaporate but one or two will by capillary action, soak into the soil and may nourish the roots of something profound. But — better to wait for that to germinate than drink it off the blades before it can, right?