“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”
George Santayana
“Scientists seek to know the mind of god while engineers seek to imitate Him.”
Mark Grant
“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”
Marva Collins
“Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation”
William Shakespeare
“I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.”
David Baker
“In literature imitations do not imitate”
Mark Twain
“There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him”
Benjamin Franklin
