Nonetheless, Mr Allen's book looks set to open up the question of how much credit each of the two schoolfriends should get for Microsoft's early success, and on this, Idea Man makes a determined case to future historians that Mr Gates's credit should be reduced.
It was an old idea that man makes a gift to the god but expects a gift in return.
Watching a Tokyo chef make a perfect margherita pizza, Chang observes that here he sees a man making food "more Italian in its idea, its thesis, than some people in Italy are making".
"This man has made an idea into a fantastic reality, arguably the biggest success we have achieved in this country," said Mr. Ashdown, who speaks of Mr. Herzberg with the pride of a favored son.
Time is a man-made idea used to define "night" and "day".
Being trapped inside a cubicle doing mind-numbing work for the Man can make the idea of starting a business seem so appealing.
Often, the mistake such men make is not that they produce ideas but that they forget the need to keep even good ideas firmly in their place.
Democracy is based on the idea that men make laws.
I absolutely abhor the idea of men making decisions that impact Aboriginal mothers, decisions that do nothing but enhance the culture of fear that we already live under.
While #MeToo may seem to be a groundbreaking crackdown on famous and powerful harassers and abusers arguably in large part because of social media the idea of these men making a comeback has proved itself time and time again for decades.
Along with a series of vivid case studies the most famous known colloquially as "Dora" (1905), "Little Hans" (1909), "The Rat Man" (1909), "The Psychotic Dr. Schreber" (1911), and "The Wolf Man" (1918)—they made his ideas known to a wider public.
