some say that Shakespeare should share his genius with Sir Francis
Bacon, so may be not a "standalone" genius at all. Who knows...
best regards
Viktoras
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
[TT] - Totally Tangential.
Speaking as a happily married person (just thinking about how that mucks
up marriage statistics makes it even happier) both my wife and I would
find it pretty tough to claim 100% authorship of anything; well, except in
those arguments where she says that one of our sons is 100% like me :)
As a person who doesn't feel to bad about plundering code (as well as
shoving a lot of mine around for others to plunder) I can honestly say
that my maximum input on anyone project is about 75%; even if the other
25% consisted of supplying hot drinks, keeping the kids out of the way,
cooking meals, cleaning the house - I would have been hard-put to complete
a lot of work without that support.
So, whether Albert Einstein's wives were quiet geniuses spoon-feeding
"stupid Bert", or whether they were "just" his support crew doesn't really
matter: their contribution should be acknowledged.
Skaespeare ripped-off everything, left, right, and centre: it is what he
did with the material he gathered that constitutes genius.
Of course there are Shakespearian 'scholars' (and those single quotes are
meant to signify that they are a fairly worthless crowd) who worry about
whether that wonderful turn of phrasing in Richard II's soliliquoy is 100%
Shakespeare, or whether the first adjective was thought up by another
lurking genius: does it matter? Not one wit: "The play's the thing!"
"And so to a little coding" . . . to misquote that unsung hero of
software development, Mr Samuel Pepys.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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