from 模倣と創造と知的財産 Steve Jobs: Good artists copy, great artists steal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6jeZ7m0ycw
Steve JobsはPablo Picassoがこの発言をしたと言っているが、エビデンスは見つかっていない。 Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal – Quote Investigator
ピカソに帰着しなくてもT.S. Elliotのこの文章でスティーブ・ジョブズの言いたかったことは言えるのではないか
One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.