[TT] When they ask, Who (or What) was this written by ?

[viktoras didziulis]

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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