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Patent Quotes by Lawrence Lessig
- Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push a…
- This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does…
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- This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. — Lord Byron
- Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to… — Lawrence Hargrave
- ... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski
- With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not… — Samuel Hopkins Adams
- 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
- When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas… — Thomas Carlyle
- I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them. — Thomas A. Edison
- The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so,… — Linus Torvalds