Quote: If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research (antedating 1938)

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:40 AM -0400 7/17/10, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many,
>it's research
>This quotation is attributed to Wilson Mizner and Bob Oliver.


And if you steal from wikipedia, it's both, and you can save time to boot.

--Anonymous

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