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You grow great crops in great soil. And the soil is the commons. Increasingly, we have monopolistic companies that try to take as much…

— Tim O'Reilly

Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest…

— James Surowiecki

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

— Marc Andreessen

“Throughout American economic life, regulatory barriers to entry and competition limit innovation by providing excessive monopoly privileges through copyright and patent laws, restrict occupational…

— Robert J. Gordon

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer…

— Charles C. Mann

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good…

— James Dyson

Large companies can afford to file patents on every idea they have. Small companies, we have to weigh our options, do the research. We…

— Lonnie Johnson

Savvy, competitive investors able to build, buy, and fix companies will continue to stimulate growth by allowing us to do more with less -…

— Joe Lonsdale

Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the end of…

— Paul Laffoley

“Patent Law cannot afford to sit and watch while technology advancement changes its dynamics”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

— Ludwig von Mises

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

— Matt Ridley