103 Patent Quotes
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Famous Patent Quotes
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
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
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. — Larry Wall
[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? — Jonas Salk
Constant leadership in engineering, not patents is the fundamental source of protection. — Philip Arthur Fisher
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
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. — Bill Gates
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 use of one's contributions to computer science. — Donald Knuth
I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator. — Kim Dotcom
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. — Miguel de Icaza
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs. — Nikola Tesla
Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly. — Dhirubhai Ambani
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. — Benjamin Disraeli
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. — Nikola Tesla
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
Short Patent Quotes
- I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them. — Thomas A. Edison
- To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair. — Tina Fey
- No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents. — Ludwig von Mises
- When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas. — Irwin M. Jacobs
- No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment. — William O. Douglas
- Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention. — Edwin Percy Whipple
- Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom! — Candace Bushnell
- In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam. — James Nasmyth
- You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents. — Elon Musk
Being A Parent Quotes
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. — Osho
Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. — Billy Graham
The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things. — Queen Victoria
Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts. — Jacques Derrida
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always. — Isabel Allende
Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird Johnson
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World! — Martin Luther King, Jr.
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do. — Jane Austen
The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own. — Harlan Lane
Patent Leather Quotes
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
I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead. — Sylvia Plath
My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.' — Nancy Lublin
I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots. — Donatella Versace
If you want to wear nude, go with suede or a beautiful leather, please, if I see one more nude patent stiletto on the carpet I feel like I'm going to kill somebody. — Jaime King
As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries. — Geoffrey Hill
I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like me :) — Elizabeth Gilbert
Patent Law Quotes
Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. — James Madison
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. — Northrop Frye
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
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 in some respects, often father monopoly. — Robert H. Jackson
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 the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere. — Eben Moglen
Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it. — Mark Cuban
Intellectual Property 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
I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property. — Shepard Fairey
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
There is no such thing as intellectual property. — Jean-Luc Godard
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
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
People Writing About Patent
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Bill Gates |
1100 | 7827 |
 Kim Dotcom |
46 | 10 |
 Nikola Tesla |
199 | 7670 |
 Dean Kamen |
39 | 247 |
 Mark Twain |
2433 | 47813 |
 Larry Wall |
220 | 633 |
More 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
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world. — Jeremy Rifkin
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
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. — Lord Byron
If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it. — Fritz Machlup
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. — Richard Stallman
Blockchain software companies may end up being amalgamated into existing software giants, at which point blockchain patents will just become part of the existing patent war. — Vitalik Buterin
An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill — Theodore Levitt
In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other companies. In addition, internal inventions not being used in a firm’s business should be taken outside the company. — Henry Chesbrough
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections. — Donald Knuth
No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so. — Eric Hobsbawm
In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective. — Pierre Bourdieu
Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power. — Murray Rothbard
If you read Wall Streets reports, they dont talk of soya bean as originating in China. They dont talk of soya bean as soya bean. They talk of Monsanto soya. Monsanto soya is protected by a patent. It has a patent number. It is therefore treated as a creation of Monsanto, a product of Monsantos intelligence and innovation. — Vandana Shiva
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated. — Iain Banks
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. — James Fallows
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation. — Albert Einstein
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight. — Robert A. Heinlein
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 why that is? The only reason could be: To Serve the Devil - Pleasure! Pleasure, which is a dirty word in Christian culture. — Lenny Bruce
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since. — George Bernard Shaw
If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. — Sigmund Freud
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 still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time. — George Eliot
The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack. — Theodore Roosevelt
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time. — Thorstein Veblen
If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple. — Dhani Harrison
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