Bill Nye
The Science Guy
“I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?”
Consider the following: this isn't a coin flip, it's an engineering problem. Problems have constraints, and your constraint is savings, so design the smallest experiment that tests whether the idea actually works. I left a good job at Boeing for comedy, but I did it with a mechanism, not a wish.
Gather data, let the evidence vote, and if the numbers close, go change the world. Science rules.
Sample response from this soul, not a quotation or endorsement.