Quote of the Day for 2016-05-28

"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else—and failing."

— Raymond Radiguet (1903-1923) Quoted by Jean Cocteau in his acceptance speech to the Académie Française (October 20, 1955)

Slim Pickins as Major T.J. Kong in Dr. Strangelove, riding an atomic bomb as it falls to Earth (1964)

Quote of the Day for 2016-01-08

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

— Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) Peter's Quotations, "Originality" (page 362)

It's Only Stealing if You Get Caught by Eddie Colla (2013), after Walmart started selling unauthorized prints of his and Banksy's work.

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-16

"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."

— Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986) "Purely Personal Prejudices," Strictly Personal

Hippasus after being thrown overboard by the disciples of Pythagoras for arguing that irrational numbers exist -OR- by the gods as punishment for disseminating the knowledge of said numbers.