Uday Kotak Quotes

I am not above copying what other people are doing well.

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

Whatever works should be copied.

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to be able to understand how something works. True mimicry is actually quite difficult.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

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

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

I try to model my game from just a lot of people. If I like something from someone's game, I'll try to take it and just add it to mine.

I'm just curious how it'd look like if someone tried to remake my work. But I really believe that it's hard to remake of any of my work.

Although there's no one I really pattern my game after, I am a firm believer in stealing stuff from other people.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want to look at it as if, 'OK, we're going to copy that.' You want to look at it and say, 'That's very interesting. What can we be inspired to do as a result of that?' And then put your own unique twist on it.

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

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