Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
"Lobachevsky"
Songs by Tom Lehrer (1953)
“Existing is plagiarism.”
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
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“Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.”
Walter Moers book The City of Dreaming Books
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Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.”
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Quoted in Alva Johnston's The Legendary Mizners (1953, Farrar Straus and Young, New York, chapter 4, p 66) and Bartlett's, 1992, p. 631.
Also quoted as If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism. If you copy from two, it's research by Stuart B. McIver in Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags.
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Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Kearsley, 600
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