Mark Twain Quotes

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

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

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

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

The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

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.

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.

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

People have to respect intellectual property.

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

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

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.

That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

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

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.