Quotes about Plagiarism

"Property in ideas is an insoluble contradiction.  [He who complains of "theft" of his idea] complains that something has been stolen which he still possesses, and he wants back something which, if given to him a thousand times, would add nothing to his possession."

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

Self-plagiarism is style.