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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkseraphim" data-source="post: 3695327" data-attributes="member: 40735">There are the Innovators, and there are the Imitators.The Innovators originated, by grace of being born first.  They may not have been the best, but they were there.The Imitators follow in the footsteps of the Innovators.  They can surpass them in technique, but if you ask them, you'll often find that they're well aware that they can only go where they go because the Innovators went there first.Now, a question.  If, by some remote miracle of scientific aberration, Steve Jobs was able to meet Babbage - do you think he'd shake his hand?  Or punch him in the face?I think it's rather pedantic to argue about taste and style, if you can't summon up the grace to acknowledge the contributions of the past.</blockquote>