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Linus Torvalds: Successful projects are 99% perspi...
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison
It's not so original and it sounds like it was copied/pasted from an old quote 100 years ago
pythonaut_16
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Linus literally talks about Edison and that quote in the article
analog31
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I suspect the original Edison quote is so widely familiar, that a conspicuous modification is a sort of play on words that doesn't require citing the original.
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It's not so original and it sounds like it was copied/pasted from an old quote 100 years ago