Quotes About Plagiarism

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.

The Chiffons had so many hits better than "He's So Fine"—"Out of This World," "Why Am I So Shy," "I Have a Boyfriend"—and it's a shame George never got around to rewriting those.) Just

Forgive plagiarism, copy one person's thoughts, you are a plagiarist.... if it is by more than one, it's a council! (may have "borrowed this, too!")

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

Sometimes the distinction between theft and homage is murky.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

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Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

In literature, it's called plagiarism. In the movies, it's homage.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Allie returned to MIT to finish her doctorate, only to discover that her advisor, Abraham Sena, whom she had admired, had stolen her thesis while she was gone, publishing it as if it were his own work.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

If we trace these stories back through the centuries, we find how weak their foundations actually are. In fact, they are based on one or two contemporary pieces of propaganda and a prodigious amount of plagiarism. From there we have our modern story of tulipmania.

People have to respect intellectual property.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

For the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.