User blog comment:Dorkpool/Are Some Stories Above Crtiticism?/@comment-25941663-20150406140816/@comment-25941663-20150406172547

Hmm, I see your point now. You are right, I didn't think of it this way.

Stories have been around since the birth of mankind, so the only breakthrough about, say Ben Drowned, is in the video game pasta field, while it failed story-wise.

On the other hand, Turing's machine not only was a breakthrough in the computers field, but it was also very good as a machine (something that has existed for a long, long time).

(I hope that makes sense, it's hard for me to articulate such abstract ideas)

Also, I agree that ideas alone don't mean much. Yes, in most cases you do need an idea to start with, but execution is what separates failure from success. At the end of the day it doesn't matter what kind of ideas you have, but what you have created/achieved.