“Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.” WritingI CanHardBitsPercentOriginalsSeventies Author:Mike Rutherford
“Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone to own a computer. We're aiming at everybody who uses a computer as an information access device. The original idea was to build one cheaply enough to put one on every desk.” PeopleThinkingIdeasEnoughUseInformationNeededRight NowComputerPercentOriginalsAccessDevicesDesksOriginal Ideas Author:Larry Ellison
“I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.” FeelsPercentOriginalsInspiredOriginal Thought Author:Ne-Yo
“For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. ... Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.” YearsHas BeensTwoBigsRunningJobsLastsMillionsEnvironmentCuttingPercentOriginalsSpeciesForestsDestroyedCorporationsOperationsVersusEcosystemsBig BusinessAcresDichotomyTimberRedwoodsLogging Author:Julia Hill
“I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.” LoveGivingYearsShareTalentBrotherBandDemandEqualGiving UpPercentOriginalsAgreePartnersMy BrotherEmployeeReducingDrummerLove My Brother Author:Rich Robinson
“Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.” PeopleThinkingArtCreativeTenPercentAreasOriginalsFollowingCopying Author:Hugh Hopper
“Aggregating is only a part of what we do: HuffPost offers a combination of original blog posts (approximately 200 a day), original reporting, syndicated news (like from AP) that we pay for, and licensed content (via content-sharing partnerships). Original blog posts and pieces from our reporters account for more than 40 percent of all content viewed on HuffPost.” PayPiecesOffersNewsPercentAccountsOriginalsPostsCombinationPartnershipReportersBlogs Author:Arianna Huffington
“The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other reason that they're fighting it is the corporate prisons they have now. Because they've privatized all our prisons, corporations have to make money, and the only way they can make money is, I believe, the prisons have to be at least 80-90 percent full. That's why the United States - which is home of the brave, land of the free - we have more people in prison than any other country in the world.” PeopleWorldWayBelieveWarCountryStatesReasonHomeFightingI BelieveCausesUnitedUnited StatesLandCrimeDrugPercentOriginalsPrisonBraveMaking MoneyCorporateCorporationsOther CountriesWar On DrugsLand Of The Free Author:Jesse Ventura
“The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.” PeopleThinkingMenHumansWellsEndsRaceMistakeHeardActivityPercentOriginalsAveragePositive AtheismHuman RaceRepetitionClicheAverage ManOriginal Thought Author:H. L. Mencken