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Quotes About Duplication

To ensure that there is minimal duplication of effort and for regional product managers to align effectively with the enterprise, a corporate product and portfolio management function is necessary.
~ Steven Haines
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication
~ Susan Sontag
I hoard and buy loads of the same things over and over - DVDs, clothes, trainers.
~ Ashley Walters
Repetition breeds reiteration.
~ Sophia Nash
But from my point of view, such an undertaking is impossible. The mathematics are so self-evident that they don't need to be calculated. It's rather like my asking you whether, on a billion dollars in income, you had to pay tax. You wouldn't need to pull out your calculator to check. You'd know tax was owed. And, similarly, I know overwhelmingly that one cannot successfully duplicate nature in this way, or hope to isolate it.
~ Michael Crichton
Man creates. the machine duplicates. In each case a different principle is appealed to, a different characteristic, called into being. To create is to cause to exist a thing that is unique. To duplicate is to cause to exist a thing that is uniform.
~ Brian Keeble
The Cardiff Giant that most Americans have seen is this copy. Barnum exhibited a fake fake.
~ Carl Sagan
pisseur de copie
~ Muriel Spark
If I have the same logic in two places, I work with the design to understand how I can have only one copy. Designs without duplication tend to be easy to change.
~ Kent Beck
We are addressing duplication and complexity. At the same time, we are investing more in research and development, speeding up the time to market of new innovations, and expanding our sales force in markets where growth is to be found, like Turkey, Russia, the Mideast, China, and southeast Asia.
~ Frans van Houten
Bits want to move. Bits want to be linked to other bits. Bits want to be reckoned in real time. Bits want to be duplicated, replicated, copied. Bits want to be meta.
~ Kevin Kelly
If you cut a worm in two, you make two worms.
~ George R.R. Martin
And anyway, as they will say in the distant future, "Replication is the sincerest form of flattery.
~ George Takei
And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.
~ Homer
There are only so many stories in the world... Duplication of plots is bound to happen because most writers have read very extensively in their genre and have become aware they are adding an extra layer to the meta-narrative, finding a new spin on the original.
~ Kerry Greenwood
there is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy, a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History, and, even, with the European tradition.
~ Umberto Eco
Kitaplardaki tekboynuzlu t?pk? bir bask? gibidir. E?er bask? varsa, bask?s? yap?lan bir ?eyin var olmu? olmas? gerekir.
~ Umberto Eco
Rub R. Stamp has one virtue: he can repeat whatever is told him.
~ John E. Rosser, 1923
'Product life' is measured in months, not years, and as soon as you introduce a 'product,' understand that others in your business are going to reverse engineer it to duplicate the results after they circumnavigate the patents, the trademarks, and the intellectual property.
~ Michael Gerber
Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Evolving a widely reused resource also requires coordination because changes must be compatible with all existing systems or users. Such coordination can slow down innovation... Some digital companies have even begun to explicitly favor duplication because their business environment rewards economies of speed.
~ Gregor Hohpe
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
~ Thomas Edison
Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.
~ Clyde Butcher