copy Quotes

“I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.”

“To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense.”

“Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.”

“Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!”

“It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.”

“As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.”

“Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.”

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”