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We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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We Have Always Been Shameless About Stealing

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We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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Ultimately, it comes down to taste. it comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and i think part of what made the macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.
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Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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Stealing things is everybody's problem. we [apple inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. so people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. we believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.
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The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. the second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. the third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.
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If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. don't trust your memory. then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. what a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. so be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.
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Ideas matter a lot, the underlying ideas that stand behind policies. when you don't have ideas, your policies are flip-flopping all over the place. when you do have ideas, you have more consistency. and when you have the right ideas - then you can get somewhere (reagan had the right ideas).
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