Copying Quotations

Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida.

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.

Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.

Like a perfect tennis serve, a perfect golf swing or a perfect omelet, a perfect resume takes more effort than simply copying what others do,

No downloading, printing or copying will be permitted.

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.

But as far as copying the blueprint, your team is your team. You have strengths, you have weaknesses. You have to figure out what your identity is as a team, make sure that stays the same, and then build strong around it.

Basically what students come to us for is copying and binding work.

We look at competitors and see what they're selling and offer it at our stores, ... We do anything we can to get better intelligence on what our customer wants. Our various competitors approach the market in different ways. If there's something that they're doing that's successful, we have no problems copying that.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

I'm stupidly crazy for old movies. I (record) them so that when I'm doing my makeup in the morning, I have them on. I can be like: 'Look at Jane Russell in that shiny leopard dress - I'm copying that.'

I'm sick and tired of you copying me. I don't want a clone.

It fixes the hole in the DNA by copying similar information,

I think this year, she's going to have a hard time copying the offense she had last year. If she can match her numbers from last year, that would be great, but I think pitching-wise, she's going to improve some things and be more consistent.

When I was 19, I started taking it seriously. I started copying my grandfather's 78s and talking to the older generation who played it, learning their stories and their music and eventually teaching it at the New England Conservatory of Music.

We hope this settlement will make a lot of content holders, especially record companies, think twice about going down a similar road. Technology that is effective at stopping copying will always run the risk of exposing computers to hackers.

The defendant admits to spending about one month to perfect the copying process of the bills.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.

There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

What's been revealed of Windows Vista is particularly sad. Defaulting to a mode that requires users to enter an administrative password before they can install programs? A security-enhancing idea, but one that's been around for ages in Apple's Mac OS X. Integrated search? Apple has it now. The Registry? There's no sign of that monstrosity in OS X, but it'll still be around in Windows Vista to drive users nuts. Copying the competition's good ideas and retaining a bad one that you actually did originate: That's innovation!

Everyone's going to think I'm copying you. You can't use that name.

We all talk about how great Linux is, ... But if you look at the most innovative desktop today, Microsoft's Vista is not copying Linux, it is copying Apple.

They spend tens of thousands of dollars on copying and overnight couriers. We don't have to print anything. Sites are starting to see the savings and the efficiencies.

They're worried about people copying it. It is easier than before, not only to copy a CD, share it with a few friends, but share it with millions of people you don't even know. So that's what they're worried about.

There are answers that cover the short, medium and long term. Everyone needs to realise that the thing the internet is good at is copying files, especially text files, between different locations. It is not a bug that needs cured, it doesn't need fixed, it's what makes the internet work. More people are reading more words from more screens everyday. It's not going to be long before the majority of text people read is in a digital format.

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

I wanted to keep it authentic, ... I even went as far as copying the original drum parts. I felt that was an overlooked part of those recordings. Now when people play rockabilly they ignore the little fills and tricks they used.

It was kind of what I call new-age basketball. The passing game was just starting with lots of ball movement and player movement. These guys just believed in it, moving without the ball. It was constant motion and everyone was copying UCLA's 2-3 press, and we used it pretty effectively.

Creativity means not copying.

In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

It's much more effective than sitting down and copying letters,

They have money, education and are fixated upon copying their ?betters' ? those of the nobility.

I don't think there is a publisher association on the planet who says, 'Oh, this is a good idea,' ... 'Trust me. I'm copying your full book, but, believe me, I'm only going to use a little bit.'

Google is directly infringing on our copyrights. They are copying and showing our work on their Web site. They are also placing ads on these Web sites that are infringing on our work.

Because a lot of people will be copying my look,

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995.

When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.

The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect, but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

The main reason I showed him that wasn't even about copying Albert or anything. It was more the balance part of it. Albert has great balance. His body is not jumping and that means his head is not jumping. When your head is not jumping, you see the ball better.

Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is to do it brilliantly.

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

You cannot innovate by copying.

The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!

The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?

Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make a deal to be on The Apprentice,.

with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren.

If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.

To model an object is to possess it.

They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.