Top 235 Copying Quotes & Sayings

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

Copying is about reverse-engineering.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

I am not above copying what other people are doing well.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

I'm not copying Bipasha in 'Trishna.' It is no doubt a remake of 'Jism,' but there are certain differences.

Copying is a form of self-validation.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

Creativity means not copying.

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.

I definitely went through this whole phase of seeing what my seniors or friends would be wearing and just copying that.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.

You cannot innovate by copying.

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.

I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.

In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.

Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.

For private use, filesharing and copying should be legal.

Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

I started off copying disks on my computer when I was eight or nine.

I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing!

We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.

Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.

When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.

I've never heard Donald Trump say that he watches 'House of Cards,' but I'd be really shocked if he didn't because he appears to be copying Frank more than we're copying the current administration.

You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.

We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.

Whenever we haven't got enough information to make decisions for ourselves, we have a habit of copying the behaviour of those around us.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.