Copying Quotes

“We're used to picturing the genealogy of a text like a family tree: one original at the base ascending like a single trunk, with copies branching off it, and copies of copies branching off them. And so on throughout the generations. We imagine an original from which all the generations of diversity spring as scribes make revisions and introduce copying errors. But the reverse seems to be the case when it comes to the origins of the Bible: the further you go back in its literary history, the less uniformity there is. Scriptural traditions are rooted, quite literally, in diversity.”

“The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the bullshit.”

“To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.”

“Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow.”

“There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.”

“One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.”

“People who copy you will always be one step behind.”

“Copy cats may seem good at what they are doing, but they will never find a spot at the top.”

“If someone is copying what you do, Congratulate yourself for inspiring that someone to follow your footsteps.”