#original idea

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads. ↗

— Mark E. Smith

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The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

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Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along. ↗

— Tim Conway

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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming. ↗

— John Hench

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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations. ↗

— Frank Darabont

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

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It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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