“No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done”
Nas (1973) American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur
No Idea's Original
On Albums, The Lost Tapes (2002)
“That’s how ideas are generated. Unusual combinations, mixing old and new, stimulate original ideas, that is, ideas with origins.”
Think Like an Artist (2015)
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“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
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“A man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Also reported as "One's mind" instead of "A man's mind", and "can never go back" or "never regains" instead of "never goes back"; most likely properly attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Misattributed
Freeman Dyson (1923) theoretical physicist and mathematician
Pt. 1, Ch. 10
Disturbing the Universe (1979)
“To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (30 May 1902); also in Mark Twain : A Life, p. 611
