Linus Torvalds: Successful projects are 99% perspiration and 1% innovation
It&#x27;s funny how he says &quot;Don&#x27;t do this big &#x27;think different&#x27;... screw that&quot;, apparently without realising that Apple did exactly what he&#x27;s talking about.
Almost all of Apple&#x27;s big innovations were stolen from other places, and then they shut up, and got to work : making it work properly, making it user friendly, making it sexy, and then selling it.<p>Apple&#x27;s slogan may have been &quot;think different&quot;, and they have the image of being radical innovators, but hardly any of their innovations actually originated with them.
Apple is 99% perspiration and 1% stealing good ideas :-)<p>There&#x27;s even an infographic : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;27&#x2F;apple-stolen-ideas&#x2F;#Fs4Q5gSS.ZqF" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;27&#x2F;apple-stolen-ideas&#x2F;#Fs4Q5gSS....</a>