> "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow." -Charles Browder
Not just ideas, people have lost their careers to unkind jibes. Here's English Cricketer Monty Panesar explaining the unexpected course his life took after a retort by Australian cricketer Shane Warne that "Panesar hasn't played 33 matches, but the same match 33 times" in a damning indictment of his uninventiveness and inadaptability: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/28/monty-panesar-...
Not just ideas, people have lost their careers to unkind jibes. Here's English Cricketer Monty Panesar explaining the unexpected course his life took after a retort by Australian cricketer Shane Warne that "Panesar hasn't played 33 matches, but the same match 33 times" in a damning indictment of his uninventiveness and inadaptability: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/28/monty-panesar-...
A relevant comment from a thread on CalyxOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28101853