Duplication Quotes

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

We have 17 different intelligence agencies and they are all basic;ly doing the same thing.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

What's the problem you solve? Solve it for one person. Create a system to do it without you. Duplicate.

Prior to the present war [WWII], the United States had no foreign intelligence service. It never has had and does not have a coordinated intelligence service.

I can't copy nature.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

You turn down work you feel you've already done.

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

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

We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy.

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!

For creators, especially for me as a composer, I am sure for singers also, it is sad. It is not exciting that we have to create something that someone else has already done before.

I try hard not to repeat myself and not to do material other people are doing. We transcribe every other late-night show to make sure there's no similarity.