Quotes About Duplication

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

Copying , Copying

The World Is Full of Copycats.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

Here is page 31 again, page 32 ... and then what comes next? Page 17 all over again, a third time! What kind of book did they sell you, anyway? They bound together all these copies of the same signature, not another page in the whole book is any good.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

You've got yourself a cloned body here, Jim.

The problem here is a very general one: anytime you copy code with cut and paste, you essentially double your maintenance effort in the future.

Poorly designed code usually takes more code to do the same things, often because the code quite literally does the same thing in several places.

Over time, the system will get better as long as people aren't introducing duplication behind your back. If they are, you can take steps with them short of physical violence, but that is another issue.

system will get better as long as people aren't introducing duplication behind your back. If they are, you can take steps with them short of physical violence

Everything is a version of something else