I was just reading the final chapter of The Well-Grounded Java Developer, and it quotes thus on the borrowing of ideas, which is apt to mention here: One of th

I was just reading the final chapter of The Well-Grounded Java Developer, and it quotes thus on the borrowing of ideas, which is apt to mention here: One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. —T. S. Eliot