91 Intellectual Property Quotes
Following is our list of intellectual property quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about intellectual property protection.
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Famous Intellectual Property Quotes
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. — Bill Gates
There is no such thing as intellectual property. — Jean-Luc Godard
I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property. — Shepard Fairey
An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities. — Lee Kun-hee
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. — Norman O. Brown
If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. — Kim Dotcom
Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital. — Paul Tudor Jones
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it — Karl Marx
Constant leadership in engineering, not patents is the fundamental source of protection. — Philip Arthur Fisher
All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property — Gary L. Francione
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention — Dean Kamen
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. — Larry Wall
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. — G. K. Chesterton
Property is a nuisance. — Paul Erdos
Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it. — Grace Hopper
Short Intellectual Property Quotes
- The possessions of the rich are stolen property. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop. — Jeffrey Zeldman
- Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. — John Lennon
- Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future. — Paola Antonelli
- Domain names and websites are Internet real estate. — Marc Ostrofsky
- I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own — Nikola Tesla
Intellectual Property Rights Quotes
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them. — Dan Glickman
Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place. — Charles Handy
Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. — Alex Kozinski
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy. — Jeffrey Sachs
For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity. — Vandana Shiva
Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen. — Steve Jobs
For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights? — Michel Chossudovsky
Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights. — Don Rose
Intellectual Property Protection Quotes
I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be protected. — Jeff Mills
I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem. — Jared Polis
Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. — Lawrence Lessig
I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected. — Jim Oberweis
It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days. — Stewart Baker
Patent Quotes
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both. — Emile M. Cioran
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 ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with US patents. — Smedley Butler
I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery. — Ulysses S. Grant
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. — Thomas Carlyle
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 newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents. — Samuel Hopkins Adams
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand. — Federico Garcia Lorca
[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? — Jonas Salk
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. — Lord Byron
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. — Bill Gates
A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways. — Mark Twain
People Writing About Intellectual Property
More Intellectual Property Quotes
I don't hate anybody. The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, the world didn't work the way it was supposed to for them. — Mark Zuckerberg
If cultured meat replaces traditional animal husbandry, as is the stated goal, the ability to provide animal protein becomes an intellectual property controlled by the few and the powerful. — Mark Sisson
As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives. — Wendell Berry
I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime. — Howard Berman
Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having. — Karl Marx
[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba. — Gilberto Gil
Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're for sale, that's part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don't have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not. — Scott Mcnealy
If you talk privately to our tech companies, our pharmaceutical companies, our high-end manufacturing companies, the high end of America, where the good-paying jobs are, China is not letting them in unless China gets to steal their intellectual property in a company that`s 51 percent owned by the Chinese. — Charles Schumer
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property. — Michael Nesmith
I basically believe that until China stop stealing our intellectual property, and until they stop keeping our companies out that do good things, the amount we will gain from export jobs is minimized, and the amount we lose in middle class incomes is maximized. — Charles Schumer
Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today's richest men have made their money out of intellectual property. — Mark Getty
Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology. — Lawrence Lessig
Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive. — Virginia Foxx
Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative. — Steve Jobs
They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival. — Jeremy Rifkin
Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is. — Jeff Jarvis
Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century. — Mark Getty
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. — Steve Ballmer
I'm not an attorney or a person who does intellectual property . — Manning Marable
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others. — John Perry Barlow
The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations. — John Bruton
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology. — Eric Allman
We as a music community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual property, being paid fairly for the work that we do. — Neil Portnow
I think the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other. — Linus Torvalds
[I have ] two boys. One, Nicholas, is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix in which he - gets into - a lot of very controversial cases. He has sued Sheriff Arpaio, the famous sheriff who keeps people in tents, gives them green bologna and the like. My other son Tom is with Williams & Connolly in Washington, where he does intellectual property defamation cases. — Nat Hentoff
Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent. — Esther Dyson
Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven. — Chuck Martin
The really big problem with China is that there are the unfair trade practices, like currency manipulation, illegal export subsidies and the theft of intellectual property, but then there's also things that the WTO doesn't cover that it should, which is the use of sweat shops and pollution havens. — Peter Navarro
Why is it Muslims from Pakistan or from Egypt come to America and thrive, and they are frustrated back home? It's about clean government. It's about a rule of law. It's about intellectual property protection. They've got all the talent and energy of anybody else. As new immigrants they may have more of it, so you put them in our system and they become doctors, lawyers, and businessmen and entrepreneurs. — Thomas Friedman
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