"Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old ideas together in new ways."
Related:
- At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly
contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new idea
o matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new.... - At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly
contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new idea
o matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new.... - THEORY: System of ideas meant to explain something, chosen with a view to originality, controversialism, incomprehensibility, and how good it will look in print.
- New York's got the ways and means, just won't let you be.
- Sherry: Hey Bart! Our dad says your dad is incompetent.
Bart: What does incompetent mean? Terry: It means he spends more time yacking and scarfing down donuts than doing his job.... - If iterate means to do again and again, then what does reiterate mean?
- Tradition does not mean that the living are dead;
it means the dead are living.
-- Harold Macmilla... - hack together vt.
[common] To throw something together
so it will work.
Unlike `kluge together' or cruft together, this does not necessarily have negative connotations....
