I'm for authenticity over originality...

Omar Touray: lazy writers plagiarise; great writers pick brains for ideas. They're just good at hiding their source.

Pablo Picasso: Good artists copy; great artists steal.

Abraham Lincoln: books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Marie Antoinette: there is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Stephen fry: an original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: all my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

Coco Chanel: Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

See how all these great artists are telling you that it's not unusual for people to think or express the same thing at different times and in diverse places.

Can't you see AUTHENTICITY is what's of the essence... would you rather listen to some knowledge-impeding yet-to-evolve or amnesiac of a lecturer who tells you to avoid the miracle of Google and be ORIGINAL?

Do me a favour, ask him or her to tell you what he or she's ever said or done that's never been said or done by someone somewhere and I'll tell you his or her source... please.