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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 264762" data-attributes="member: 1054">Re: Re: Re: OriginalityAll thought builds on other thought. The first sharpened flint tool was an attempt to imitate a naturally sharp piece of flint. Then someone figured out that if you can poke things with a stick, you can put the flint on the stick, and have a spear. Then the spear becomes an arrow...The modern computers owes itself to the Babbage engine, the Babbage engine to the clock, the clock to the waterwheel, and so on, back through history. Hell, look at D&D. It grew from fantasy wargaming, which grew from historical wargaming, which grew from military training exercises, which grew from actual military planning. Add in Tolkein, who borrowed from Nordic and Celtic myth, which were based on forgotten legends from even older peoples. Or, all life itself! Man is a modified ape, apes are modified shrews, shrews are modified lizards, which are modified frogs, which are modified fish, which are modified gods-knows-what, some form of larval arthropod probably, and it all goes back to whatever-it-was that crossed the line from 'complex self-replicating molecule' to 'life'.How does that saying go? "Genius consists of looking at what everyone else has looked at, and seeing what no one else has seen."It's what you add to an idea, or how you combine ideas, or how you twist, shape, distort, mutate, or change ideas, which matters. A 'great innovator' is someone who manages to leap ahead a dozen mutations at once, going from shrew to man in a single jump.</blockquote>

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