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Apple QuickTime movie  |  1995-09-22  |  5.5 MB  |  160x120  |  15fps  |  46 seconds
Transcription: Advice for fledgling inventors, I would say strap yourself in and hold on. It's going to take longer and cost more money than you imagine. But the primary advice that I give to new inventors is to encourage their paranoia. It is, in my opinion, not paranoid to believe that if you have a good idea, people will attempt to take it from you. In fact, my experience of 15 years of doing this, there are very few good ideas that make it to the marketplace and are commercially successful. So if you think you have one of those things, don't tell anybody about your idea until you have protected it.