Plagiarise. Let no one else's work evade your eyes

The Economist ^ | Mar 14th 2002

[the]

For emphasis, I am re-quoting the following:

Indeed, a curious pattern has emerged among Turnitin's clients: good universities, such as Duke, Rutgers and Cornell, employ it. Those that like to think of themselves as top-notch, such as Princeton, Yale and Stanford, do not. According to Dr Barrie, “You apply our technology at Harvard and it would be like a nuclear bomb going off.”

[Logophile]

Those [universities] that like to think of themselves as top-notch, such as Princeton, Yale and Stanford, . . . .

Well put.

[dagny taggert]

Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -
Only be sure always to call it please 'research'.

Tom Lehrer

[the]

Thanks for the bumps.

This isn't an area I typically would post an article under so I wasn't up to speed on the applicable bump lists.

[AmishDude]

"The greatest mathematician to ever get chalk on his coat."

[Mitchell]

The Economist plagiarized the title from Tom Lehrer's song Lobachevsky. (I didn't see an attribution.)

[fnord]

"And then I write
By morning, night,
And afternoon,
And pretty soon
My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed,
When he finds out I publish first!"

[AmishDude]

"I have a friend in Minsk, who has a friend in Pinsk . . ."

[fnord]

and don't get me started on the Irish Ballad :-)

In honor of St Paddy's day:

"One morning in a fit of pique,
Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
One morning in a fit of pique,
She drowned her father in the creek.
The water tasted bad for a week,
And we had to make do with gin."

[jackbill]

Does this mean Doris Kearns Goodwin will not be able to publish her next book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"

Her book will come out after the DemocRAT primary for governor in Massachusetts. The title is really "The Rise and Fall of the Turd Reich". (shameless theft from another thread)

Another theft. I loved Rush's bumper sticker today "Honk if you wrote Doris Kearns Goodwin's latest book".

[Ole Okie]

From a radio broadcast: "He who is most original conceals his sources the best".

Certainly applies in plagerism.

[Ross Amann]

Please, it goes:

Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Think why God gave you eyes!

Tom Lehrer, circa 1960

[Congressman Billybob]

I enjoyed the article very much. I was distressed, however, that the author quoted Tom Lehrer's magnificent opus, "Lobashevsky," who was "the greatest mathematician who ever got chalk on his coat." Darned close to plagiarism, I'd say.

Congressman Billybob

2 days more: "Approaching the Heliopause from 1776"

[the]

Hey, don't criticize me, I didn't write it!

;-)

[dagny taggert]

Why, thanks. (blush) I didn't know you knew me personally. Except that you meant to say her coat. But I appreciate the sentiment. :-)

[AmishDude]

A female mathematician? That isn't possible. Surely you are joking. It has been a long quest indeed, searching for the elusive "mathbabe".