But part of the modest yet determined strength of Mr. Herring's work stems from the way he plucks ideas from the air and makes them his own.
Since 1996 he has plucked ideas from Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania and created five startups – from spark plugs to software.
Since 1996 he has plucked ideas from Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania and created five startups — products range from spark plugs to software.
I pluck ideas out of the ether then post-rationalise wildly – a very different thought-process from that of an archaeologist or historian.
I accept others plucking ideas in the air.
Łukasiewicz's theory makes constructive use of ideas plucked from elsewhere: from Frege he took the idea of a truth-value, from Whitehead and Russell the idea of an indefinite proposition, and from Bolzano the idea of the ratio of true values to all values for a proposition.
Few people know about these, and this is why I plucked the idea from my research.
Branson is something of a venture capitalist, plucking his favorite ideas from hundreds of solicitations that land in Virgin's London offices every week.
It did not pluck this idea out of thin air: this was advice from the august Institute of Medicine.At some point, the courts will probably decide.
Bernard Bernie Sahlinsns, co-founder and former owner of The Second City, the influential Chicago comedy venue that pioneered rapid-fire comedy sketches using ideas plucked from the audience, died Sunday at his home in Chicago.
