Quote: What is originality? It is merely undetected plagiarism. (Herbert Paul, 1896)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/16/2014 09:38 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
>And, after all, what is originality? It is merely undetected plagiarism.

 From more than one source, of course. "Stealing ideas from one 
person is plagiarism;  stealing ideas from many is originality."*

* Better known as research.

Joel

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