Reviews Reports Archives Search Forums Links Software Contact by Wes George Apple, Finances, Money, and Trading. Good artists create.
Great artists steal.
This famous quote by Picasso lingers on the screen at the beginning of the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley as a twisted summation of the whole film. On July 1 st , Apple filed suit against Daewoo and Future Power to stop them from marketing the E-Power and to seek punitive damages. Last week, Apple filed the same type of suit against eMachines . Picasso hardly meant that great artists steal popular designs whose original source is known to everyone. What Picasso did mean was that great artists rummage through the great junk heap of lost, bypassed, and forgotten ideas to find the rare jewels, and then incorporate such languishing gems into their own personal artistic legacy.