“First they think you're crazy, then they fight you, then you change the world.” - Elizabeth Holmes

Elizabeth Holmes, who is currently on trial for fraud charges for covering up the fact that her magic blood testing machine was too magic to work in the real world.

I think that was the joke (although admittedly sometimes you can’t tell on HN).

I can confirm that that was the joke :)

It's not exactly same but the quote credit goes to https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/mahatma_gandhi_103630

That's the joke.

I don't think she is the original author of this quote.

Going to share another quote, which I think is relative here -

“Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.” - Steve Jobs

If Jobs had been just a little less crazy, he might still be changing the world.

She's not, that's the punchline!

The irony is that she was a Steve Jobs fangirl, or copycat if you will.

Sadly those you think are too crazy to change the world, usually are

s/Sadly/Thankfully/

I feel like the "usually" is pretty important here.

Did he actually write that piece of the commercial? Or any Apple commercial becomes a Steve Jobs quote.

But they were right to laugh at Columbus. He was right for the wrong reasons.

Of course, if you don't ever try it, you can never be right for any reasons.

Bitcoin is IMO likely somewhere in between. It kickstarted a new concept in IT but money is a really simple (although powerful) usecase. I'm more interested what will be done with the concept in the future.

> But they were right to laugh at Columbus. He was right for the wrong reasons.

He wasn't even right. He was wrong in his estimation of the earth circumference, and lucky that America was there between both oceans...

He didn't say he was a genius. He seemed to imply he's the one laughing at people with all his well-earned money now :)

It's a little ingenuous to use the word 'genius' for people who put gas money into a meme currency 9 years ago

We were talking about being genuine, and here you come implying I brag that I was smart.

That's really rude.

You're rich now, so you have to get used to this.