#plagiarism

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

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

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

#i #i think #influence #nice #plagiarism

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ↗

— Dean Inge

#plagiarism #undetected

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research. ↗

— John Burke

#plagiarism #research #steal #two #you

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#guilt #plagiarism #teacher

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. ↗

— Guy Debord

#embraces #erases #expressions #false #his