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Steve Jobs: "Picasso had a saying, 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." http://www.youtube.com/
by joebadmo 15y ago
Steve Jobs: "Picasso had a saying, 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
- rsl7 15y agoThis is the same as the old saying about teaching someone to fish versus given them a fish. To steal is to make it your own, to so thoroughly understand it that you can move it forward as if it was always yours. To copy is to simply have it for today without having the understanding it takes to have had the idea in the first place, and so you can't go forward.
- joenathan 15y agoGood job, you copied the highest rated youtube comment on the link.
- edash 15y agoRelated: The Love Affair Between Steve Jobs and Pablo Picasso http://gizmodo.com/5727913/the-love-affair-between-steve-jobs-and-pablo-picasso http://gizmodo.com/5727913/the-love-affair-between-steve-job...
- gruseom 15y agoIt wasn't Picasso, but T. S. Eliot. And "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" (another Jobs favorite) was said not by Leonardo, but by William Gaddis.