Chapter 203: Plagiarism

 "Immature poets imitate; 

mature poets steal."

T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood

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

Jimi Hendrix

"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research."

Steven Wright

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

Robert Merton

"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, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

"God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God he created them.' God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch - man created in the image of what? the animals? - the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation."

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

"I write on all subjects in my way of words, expression, and conception. One may not describe it as plagiarism since the resemblance also has the circle of human nature."

Ehsan Sehgal

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