Common Fame note by Ralph Waldo Emmerson from his 1855 notebook:
Common Fame. I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
A month after his death in 1882 it was published in a little different form:
The Value of Good Work,
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse trap than his neighbors, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
POET doesn't have that beaten path yet, some would say there is no path and that the POET house is definitely deeply hidden in the woods. Most of us would agree that the Optical Interposer is "a better mouse trap". Time should verify that opinion... say something like "3 to 6 months" of time?
