Copying is about reverse-engineering.

When someone copies you, they are copying a moment in time. They don’t know the thinking that went into getting you to that moment in time, and they won’t know the thinking that’ll help you have a million more moments in time. They’re stuck with what you left behind.

We’re talking about practice here, not plagiarism — plagiarism is trying to pass someone else’s work off as your own. Copying is about reverse-engineering. It’s like a mechanic taking apart a car to see how it works.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.'-Yohji Yamamoto

Jak si totiž všiml spisovatel Wilson Mizner: kopírování od jednoho člověka je plagiátorství, od mnoha lidí je to studium.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

What one man can do, another man can do.

Plagiarism is trying to pass someone else's work off as your own. Copying is about reverse-engineering.

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

when you’re competing with people, it’s because you’re copying them.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

The writer Wilson Mizner said if you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it’s research. I once heard the cartoonist Gary Panter say, “If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!

First, you have to figure out who to copy. Second, you have to figure out what to copy.

What one man can think, another man can do.