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The answer to the question where do good ideas come from is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

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Seth Godin
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 10
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Blogger
Computer Scientist
Economist
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Mount Vernon
New York
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