originality

People \n who show originality openly, without fear, are people I \n admire. And people I stand up for.

The problem is that Quora allows so little room for free expression in a world that is crying out for originality. Don't use your real name?

All art is derivative, originality is a myth.

It passed the PTO" is an absolutely meaningless statement for originality; it just means you know how to fill in paperwork.

So when you make something compelling, you are usually taking away from its originality. If you go for originality, you risk that people won't like it as much.

Maybe you should focus more on originality and evaluate merit of these ideas instead of only craving for more stuff to be fed down your throat by current status Quo holders. And I believe that this is what HN is about.

That tends to lead to more inconsistency, but more originality as well. Besides, when each app takes up all available real estate, do you really need consistency between apps?

I think the cult of originality is actually a big problem at HN, and other "news" sites as well. The important things in life are not particularly original, and they do not change particularly quickly.

The indie game developers care about originality, passion, the sweat and hard months of work, the dedication to the craft. I think the point of Asher's essay is to show how much love and effort went into it, and that they were indeed the first to ship a full, polished game with that concept.

It's a common misconception that a startup describing itself as x of/for y is a sign of lack of originality. A lot of original ideas-- perhaps most good original ideas-- are initially conceived of as x of/for y.

It's surprising to me that someone who wasn't even at Demo Day would feel confident enough to judge the startups' originality based on the 3-5 word summaries we use on the schedule to help investors keep them straight in their heads. I was about to say that it's also surprising that people would upvote such a post.

The video lacks originality; for the musical notes it is merely a mechanical reproduction of the punched holes. Similarly, a photograph of a public domain painting is also in the public domain.

The level of originality being demanded here is unreasonable. Imagine describing to a lay-person how a new library fit like a glove and saved you a couple thousand lines of code, only to have that person balk at your unoriginal, potentially dishonest work.

For an example of my confusion, I find current HN threads can mistake disagreement for originality, so "I disagree" comments are much more respected than "I agree, and also" comments. But then I read complaints about HN and it seems some users actually want more of an always-disagree culture and not less.

On occasions that I have asked to repeat other group's seemingly unbelievable results myself, I've been flatly denied on grounds that this kind of work does not express the sort of originality of research produced by her lab. In other words, nobody wants to be known as "that lab", the nay-sayers of the field, those that would dare to question a colleague's ideas.

The tone among startup mavens is increasingly reminiscent of the odious arrogance of all the johnny-come-lately bandwagon jumpers that were crawling out of the woodwork in 1998, with the same lack of originality and hand-wavy business plans. I think this is the fifth or six social health & fitness startup I've discovered this week.

The court found numerous Apple design features to lack originality, and numerous identical design features to have been visible in a wide range of earlier tablet designs from before 2004." Equally important, the court also found distinct differences between the Samsung and Apple tablet designs, which the court claimed were apparent to the naked eye.

The culture of varsity sports on campus is a relic of an institution that has optimized its admissions process for corporate job placement over academic integrity and originality of thought. This makes sense--if you can swell your endowment by letting in athletes who are a-ok with taking easy classes and then using their one-track brains to 'flip decks' at Goldman, why not?