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Quotes About Plagiarism

You can steal someone's work but you can't steal the experience that he has gained from that work.
~ Unknown
The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it", without any confidence and prove.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
~ G. Hannelius
Self-plagiarism is style.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
It's not plagiarism — I'm recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do.
~ Unknown
Beware of copycats
~ Unknown
Fools copy proverbs
~ Unknown
The World Is Full of Copycats.
~ Unknown
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
~ Steve Jobs
Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.
~ Unknown
Hull also argues that the reason why fraud in science is so much more serious a crime than theft, even in cases where public well-being is not affected, has to do with these sorts of factors. In a case of theft or plagiarism, the only person harmed is the one stolen from. But when a case of fraud is discovered, all the scientists who used the fraudulent work will find their work on that topic deemed unreliable, and their work will not be used.
~ Unknown
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
~ Howard Dietz
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas...
~ Unknown
All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidiy is original.
~ Unknown
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
~ Igor Stravinsky
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
~ Igor Stravinsky
That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another's labors for the promotion of science and the benefit of the public.
~ Lord Ellenborough
Using brand licensed content is not stealing but it is plagiarism.
~ Loren Weisman
Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.
~ Jonathan Ive
The same ni...'s talking bout being "original" be the same ni...'s biting.
~ Unknown
Why do people make a fuss over people copying them when they copy other people too. There's no such thing as being original.
~ Unknown
You must never steal another man's words. Ever.
~ Unknown
Los buenos artistas copian, los grandes roban.
~ Unknown
If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own.
~ Isaac Newton