Picasso never said that. Jobs misquoted. But the real quote from T.S. Eliot is better: “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.”
2) Has anyone visited LayerVault's site?
Does anyone think that they invented all of the styling, color schemes, magnifying effects, icon styling out of thin air?
Anyone seen google do something similar? (looks waaaaay better than LV old site BTW)
3) If you wanted to shame someone, the best way to do so would have been a blog post...
See OXO v.s. Quirky http://goo.gl/Zccse
4) It's impossible for an idea to be truly unique/novel. They are always tangents/leaps based on a previous discoveries or insight.