“Inventors are honorable not because they make a difference, but because they want to make a difference against all odds” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic… — Fritz Machlup Copy Share Image
From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Don't negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization… — Drew Curtis Copy Share Image
Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype… — Melissa George Copy Share Image
With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff - whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
“You can derive value from the Indian patent system, provided you know how it works. Stop cribbing about how it is not… — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
There are certain zip codes that generate a disproportionate share of patents, of startups, of wealth, of jobs. And it's really important… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals,… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We hear, "Oh, we need to patent GMOs and develop new strains and new chemicals because Nature can't provide what we need."… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
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