When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.