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[S]oftware production is unlike any other production that preceded it. No raw materials are required, no time is required, and no effort is required. You can make a million copies of a piece of software instantaneously for free. It's a totally new paradigm of production.
john mcafee— "Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History of the Internet" - Part 3
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door.
james a. michener— Centennial (1974) First lines
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
joseph addison— No. 166 (10 September 1711).
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, The Spectator. No. 166.
Listen kid, take myadvicenever hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
— Comment to the young Cole Porter, attributed.
Kean is original; but he copies from himself. His rapid descents from the hyper-tragic to the infra-colloquial, though sometimes productive of great effect, are often unreasonable. To see him act, is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 1823 Of Edmund Kean. Table Talk (published1835), entry for 27 Apr.
Make copies, young man, many copies.You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres— 1855 Attributed comment to Degas. Quoted in A Vollard Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux (1937).
The painter who draws by practiceand judgement of the eye without the use of reason is like a mirror which copies everything placed in front of it without knowledge of the same.
— Quoted in Irma A Richter (ed) Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1977).
It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.
john d. carmack— Quoted in John Carmack Biography.
It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.
frederic g. kenyon— Chapter X, The Position Today, p. 136
What was once Sinclair Lewis is buried in no ground. Even in life he was fully alive only in his writing. He lives in public libraries from Maine to California, in worn copies in the bookshelves of women from small towns who, in their girlhood, imagined themselves as Carol Kennicotts, and of medical men who, as youths, were inspired by Martin Arrowsmith.
sinclair lewis— Dorothy Thompson, his ex-wife, in "The Boy From Sauk Center" in The Atlantic (November 1960)
I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.
saki— "Reginald on Christmas Presents"
Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like “Women in Chess” would sell even fewer. The idea with this title was to spread the book outside the competitive chess world. I’m interested in attracting readers who love chess but play only casually, and feminists interested in male dominated fields.
jennifer shahade— On the title of her book Chess Bitch : Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport
What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.
Norbert Wiener— VIII. Role of the Intellectual and the Scientist. p.135
The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools
georg brandes— p. 20 (An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889))
You ain't gonna sell two copies if you press a double album.
eminem— "Just Don't Give A Fuck" (Track 15).
How is it right that while this fierce suppression goes on, free copies of the Spielberg film, Schindler's List, are given to schools to indoctrinate children with the unchallenged version of events. And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
david icke— ibid. p135 (Sourced)
He that thinks with more extent than another will want words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies? Yet vanity inclines us to find faults any where rather than in ourselves. He that reads and grows no wiser, seldom suspects his own deficiency; but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood?
samuel johnson— No. 70 (August 18, 1759).
Il n'y a qu'une sorte d'amour, mais il y en a mille différentes copies.
françois de la rochefoucauld— There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.Maxim 74.
‘you must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.’ ‘Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.’
C. S. Lewis— Pilgrim’s Regress 59
How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies, I give thanks For a new relish, careless to inquire My pleasure's pedigree, if so it please, Nobly, I mean, nor renegade to art. The Grecian gluts me with its perfectness, Unanswerable as Euclid , self-contained, The one thing finished in this hasty world, Forever finished, though the barbarous pit, Fanatical on hearsay, stamp and shout As if a miracle could be encored.
james russell lowell— The Cathedral, st. 9.
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
alexis de tocqueville— Variant translation: History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.Old Regime (1856), p. 88
The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals.
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, No. 136. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.
MediaWiki makes it very easy both to track changes to the pages of their sites, and to revert to older copies of the pages.
— William Hagen, Brian Jones (2005). Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two. O'Reilly Media. p. 146. ISBN 0596100825.
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
james anthony froude— James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, Calvinism.
Decidedly the best application of art to industry is when a great many copies are made from an exceedingly good pattern.
— William Burges Art applied to industry: a series of lectures, 1865. p. 1
On airlines, so many passengers' faces are buried in John Grisham books, they could be complimentary copies for Grisham Airlines. The Progressive, Unplugged
— Marriage Mishegas
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.
— Vladimir Lenin Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908)
