“Most of us journalists have one great idea every few months, maybe two if we drink industrial levels of caffeine. For professional thinkers like Gladwell and Lehrer, the key to maintaining a remunerative career is to milk your best ideas until there’s no liquid left and pray you’ve bought yourself enough time to conjure up new ones.”

— Jonah Lehrer, self-plagiarism: The New Yorker staffer stopped being a writer and became an idea man. - Slate Magazine

12:46 am  •  22 June 2012