#lagi

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born. ↗

— Robert K. Merton

#plagiarism #humor

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#originality #plagiarism #nature

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#merit #plagiarists #preservation

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music. ↗

— Jay Kay

#disco #five #hear #i #listen

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #plagiarists #stolen #suspicious

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

#believe #fitzgerald #his #home #how

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#could #exactly #falling #falling in love #good

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

— Gilbert Gottfried

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

— Karl Kraus

#catching #feeling #idea #legitimate #oneself