Re: partition table numberings
On Monday 21 March 2005 15:32, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Odd. I've always seen this quote without the word "logic", and I can't
> > imagine why the addition of a word improves it :-)
>
> Copying logic/idea/trick from just one person/thing is mostly like doing a
> carbon copy which would be more of a theft whereas taking ideas from many
> people, combining them together to something meaningful and usable, is
> itself a big task which requires a lot of work and labor. That's why it is
> a research.
>
> Does that answer? :-)
No. Everything you need to see is said by: "Stealing from one person is
plagiarism, stealing from many is research". I've seen it attributed to
Alfred E Newman (unlikely), Anon., and Robert Heinlein. Adding the word
logic is the sort of plagiarism attempted by teenagers doing homework
papers...
--
derek
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