"The people - could you patent the sun…" — Jonas Salk

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• This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best… — Lord Byron
• Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be… — Lawrence Hargrave
• When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail,… — 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… — Linus Torvalds
• In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating… — Abraham Lincoln
• Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our… — Abraham Lincoln
• ... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all… — Alfred Tarski
• When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to… — George Bernard Shaw
• The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at… — John Carmack
• Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies… — David Shields
• I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred… — Albert Einstein

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