William Bennett Quotes

I am not really an inventor. I just steal my ideas from 8-year olds.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

Every new idea in any field needs protection.

Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right; you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

Do not covet your ideas.

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

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

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.

I have fantastic ideas.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.