Copying Quotes

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. (Quentin Crisp)
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. View quote
Betty Friedan
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. View quote
Paul Cézanne
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances. View quote
Lee Ann Womack
It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy. View quote
Steve Guttenberg
Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation. View quote
Thomas Gainsborough
It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated. View quote
Steve Jobs
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. View quote
Athanasius of Alexandria
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument. (Bill Frisell)
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them. View quote
Charlie Watts
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? View quote
Edward Felten
There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city. View quote
Janine Benyus
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. View quote
Nathalie Sarraute
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. View quote
Tracy Kidder
Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path? View quote
Theodore Gericault
One form of math denial is the belief in the ability to make computers that prevent copyright infringement. Computers only ever work by making copies: restricting copying on the internet is like restricting wetness in water. View quote
Cory Doctorow
Once a thing's been done it's been done, so while this nostalgia - I mean for the '60s and '70s, you know, looking backwards for inspiration, copying the past - how's that rock 'n' roll? Do something of your own. Start something new, you know? Live your lives now. Know what I mean? View quote
John Lennon
They really were living to be 900 years old, and there's a lot of biological reasons why they could do that. In the original creation, there was no genetic load. There were not deformed chromosomes, and they didn't suffer under the... You know, your gene code now is a copy off a copy off a copy off a copy who knows how many times of Adam. And the fact that it even works at all is pretty amazing. After all this copying process it's been through and plus the hostile environment, we, and the extra things we throw at it. View quote
Kent Hovind
By the time I was 16, the everlasting copying of stuffed birds and withered flowers at the Strasbourg School of Applied Art not only poisoned drawing for me but destroyed my taste for all artistic activity. I took refuge in poetry. (Jean Arp)
Do you know what was great? Finding out that a stupid, ridiculous thing like copying a postcard could lead to a picture. And then the freedom to paint whatever you felt like. Stags, aircraft, kings, secretaries. Not having to invent anything anymore, forgetting everything you meant by painting – color, composition, space – and all of the things you previously knew and thought. Suddenly none of this was a prior necessity for art. View quote
Gerhard Richter
They are shamelessly copying us. View quote
Steve Jobs
Let's instead define life very broadly, simply as a process that can retain its complexity and replicate. What's replicated isn't matter (made of atoms) but information (made of bits) specifying how the atoms are arranged. When a bacterium makes a copy of its DNA, no new atoms are created, but a new set of atoms are arranged in the same pattern as the original, thereby copying the information. In other words, we can think of life as a self-replicating information-processing system whose information (software) determines both its behavior and the blueprints for its hardware. View quote
Max Tegmark
I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart. View quote
John Fowles