Vitruvius Quotes

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

Damn those who have made my remarks before me!

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it..

Why don't people just open... my works instead of accusing me?

I'd never take any credit for David's music - that's all his.

I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.

All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

My philosophy has always been, you don't put your name in front of a movie.

No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.