Quotes About Plagiarism

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

Show an online or offline place where one says and others do not take away the same to show as their own.

The literature is on stretcher thanks to the many people who are knowingly giving support for own gain to the plagiarizer.

The similarity of thoughts or the point of view between the two persons may appear a case of like-mindedness, but the fact could be one is trying to snatch the credit of others for own selfishness.

There are wickedly clever who never say or do anything good first for anyone but once found something well said by someone, they alter a few words from his thoughts and often show the same quote with own photo onto it to take others credit in own favour.

There is no dearth of people who take the credit of others' effort and do not feel even a bit ashamed of it.

I do know that lifting from the Net is rampant, journalists do it, students are bound to do it and obviously a lot of academics are also doing it.

Every university has its problems. The issues range from lack of amenities, plagiarism, poor quality research, sexual harassment, faculty moonlighting, and faulty and biased recruitment.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.

Ten comics can say the same joke, and I'm the one who gets called a thief.

Often, I'm sitting opposite a client, and I'm thinking, 'How do I convince him to not copy the best-selling product out there?' And sometimes I don't know. Really, it's smarter to be a thief.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

she wasn't so much a writer as a thief.

We all steal," Standerson said. "The trick is to steal from regular people, not other novelists.

The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.

It seems whenever someone has a good idea like this, other people simply can't wait to rob them.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

There's rappers out there that don't even know how to rhyme. They take someone else's words and go with it. To each his own.

Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality...

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

It is bad enough to see one's own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people's rubbish fathered upon oneself.