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
I would just love to create a bunch of patents, I have a book of 50 right now. — Kellan Lutz 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
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other… — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
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
Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly… — Robert Pozen Copy Share Image
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of… — Henry Rosovsky 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
In the domain of pharmaceuticals, we need a metric for health impact, and with this metric we can then assess the value… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark… — Daniel Suarez 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
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing! — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions. — Scott Adams 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
IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors… — Samuel J. Palmisano 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
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image