And the even catchier: "Mediocrity borrows, genius steals" which I've never seen attributed to anyone. I think ideas that are really good tend to lose thier att

And the even catchier: "Mediocrity borrows, genius steals" which I've never seen attributed to anyone. I think ideas that are really good tend to lose thier attribution entirely because they stand on their own, so the bigger and older the name attributed is, the more critical of the idea we should be.