Patents Quotes - Page 8

• 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

  Principles, Abiding, May

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.31, M.E. Sharpe

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• God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself, nor try To make it, as the lucky fellow might A close monopoly by patent-right.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Sleep, Men, Discovery

  John Godfrey Saxe (1860). “The Money-king: And Other Poems”, p.53

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• As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.

  Thucydides

  Men, Thinking, Democracy

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

  James Nasmyth

  Mean, Iron, Steam

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.301, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!

  Gary Player

  Wish, Flags, Sideways

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• Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

  Emily Dickinson

  Hope, Heart, Action

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1672, Delphi Classics

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• When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light of the sun he has but patent yellow and white lead - for the darkest shade, umber or soot.

  John Constable

  Art, Light, Yellow

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.587, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Ideas, Rights, Intellectual

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• Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection. 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 mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth. Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good -- for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Believe, Mean, Doe

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian, don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.

  Burton Rascoe

  Jobs, Light, Ideas

  "Fanfare" by Burton Rascoe in "H. L. Mencken", 1920.

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• To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

  George Stephenson

  Pockets, Rail, My Own

  Samuel Smiles, George Stephenson (1857). “The life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer”, p.195

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• There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Office, Operations

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.166, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state of being, and not in the patent significance of immediate sensual appeal.

  Josef Pieper

  Sensual, States, Appeals

  Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.30, Ignatius Press

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• Like medieval theologians we had a philosophy that explained everything to us in advance, and everything that did not fit could be readily identified as a fraud or a lie or an illusion... The perniciousness of the anti-Communist ideology of the Truman Doctrine arises not from any patent falsehood but from its distortion and simplification of reality, from its universalization and its elevation to the status of a revealed truth.

  J. William Fulbright

  Lying, Philosophy, Reality

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• At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.

  Bill Gates

  Vaccines, Adoption, Drug

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• 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

  Men, People, Evil

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Sexy, Art, Powerful

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• I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

  Gordon Gould

  Running, Long Ago, Made

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• If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, New Inventions, Monopoly

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• Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Fall, Reading

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