Just saw a 60 Minutes piece on Elon Musk, creator of SpaceX (and Tesla Motors).

In it he chokes up when the reporter asks him about some of his heros “casting stones” in his direction.

User bane posted this nugget on Hacker News:

There’s a time, a sad time, when up and comers ping on the radar of their heroes and find them to not be the men they imagined.

It shouldn’t diminish the respect they have for their heroes, but it is the sign that they should now move out from behind them and chart their own course…except now they are on their own…there is nobody to guide them.