Inspiration need only strike once

There... now no one can have it! No one will ever have such power!

BWA HA HA HA! Are you serious?

I've sabotaged the device! I've destroyed all the plans, the notes! No one will ever be able to use them again.

You fool! You blind, condescending FOOL. Don't you get it?

Get what?

The same thing that brought you here, that let you win... THAT will ENSURE that we'll have this again. Maybe not now, but someday.

What?!

Your blind, unrelenting stubbornness, your refusal to let go... don't you see? The barrier's been broken! People won't need the notes or the prototype, the fact that IT CAN BE DONE is enough!

No... no!

Yessss. People are relentless in pursuing impossible goals... now that they know that there IS finish line, that someone else has done it... they'll never let it go. They'll figure out OTHER ways of doing it. More efficient ways. Cheaper ways. More powerful ways. Safer ways. In a sense, I should be thanking you... with the plans gone, people will find other methods, ways that aren't so easy to destroy. Rather than cribbing off the notes, they'll make up their own prototypes.