Best Patents Quotes
125 Patents quotes by 103 unique authors
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Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder…
— Lenny Bruce
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There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must…
— George Eliot
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While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be…
— Robert H. Jackson
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The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
— Miguel de Icaza
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Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of…
— Frances Parkinson Keyes
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Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.
— Niall Ferguson
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Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the…
— Jay Inslee
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The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.
— Bob Frankston
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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 big piece of…
— Eben Moglen
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If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.
— Ludwig von Mises
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I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal system…
— Vandana Shiva
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Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!
— Candace Bushnell
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Don't negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history, every…
— Drew Curtis
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During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the…
— James Gosling
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With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the…
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.
— Debbi Fields
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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making…
— Donald Knuth
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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things
— Abraham Lincoln
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You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents
— Elon Musk
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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass…
— Mark Twain
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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between…
— Mark Twain
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...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such…
— William James
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No one told these American soldiers they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the…
— Smedley Butler
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