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Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Obvious.

By Samuel Arbesman | Published: June 16, 2009

The July/August issue of the Atlantic is the Ideas Issue, and includes 15 Ways to Fix the World. While they are all thought-provoking, there was a line at the end of a piece about increasing guest worker visas that I really enjoyed:

Pritchett says he has a model of how game-changing ideas are received over time, and it works something like this: “Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Obvious.”

Awesome.

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