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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




Linus literally talks about Edison and that quote in the article


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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