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.

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

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

Self-plagiarism is style.