John B. Postel, RFC 791 quoted by Bob Braden UCLA Computer Science Dept. Both followers and eccentrics are key to the operation of collective intelligence. And without collective intelligence a society cannot survive. If your not failing enough you aren't taking enough risks. Unreasonable people do.
All progress is made by unreasonable people.
If our eyes could ever meet without fear we would recognize each other and rejoice, for love is life believing in itself. We are here on Earth to fart around. The guesses we like best, as with so many things we like best, were taught to us in childhood - by people who loved us and wished us well. We are reluctant to criticize those guesses. It is an ultimate act of rudeness to find fault with anything which is given to us in a spirit of love.