It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.
There is no time to waste in life and there is no cut and paste as well, only copy and paste – you can only emulate others
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.
Very few people have the nerve to grab their dreams. Most that you meet will be half-images or carbon copies of who they really want to be.
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.
I was like a wonder kid at Uptown. The first record I produced sold two million copies - and I'd only produced it because the producer didn't show up.
I did go bankrupt because everybody copied me - every single industry. But genuinely, it doesn't matter. I swear I don't care.
'Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.
'Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.
