Leonardo da Vinci
Even though I may not know, like them, how to cite the authors, it is a much greater and more worthy thing to bring to bear the results of experience, teacher of their teachers.
These puffed up, pompous fellows get about clothed and adorned not by their own efforts but by those of others; and to me they won’t allow the benefits of my own exertions; and if they despise me as an inventor, how much more blameworthy are they who are not inventors but merely flourischers and retailers of the work of others.
Richard Matthew Stallman
The term “intellectual property” is at best a catch-all to lump together disparate laws. Non-lawyers who hear one term applied to these various laws tend to assume they are based on a common principle, and function similarly. Nothing could be further from the case. These laws originated separately, evolved differently, cover different activities, have different rules, and raise different public policy issues.
Thomas Jefferson
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine, as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
Louis Brandeis
The great menace for freedom is an inert people.
Upton Sinclair
It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not undestanding it.
Isaac Newton
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Abraham Lincoln
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds.
John William Lloyd
You cannot cut an idea bodily out of a brain as you might transplant a strawberry from one garden to another. If I think the same thought as my neighbor, very well; it is plain that I have taken and received nothing from him, for he still has his thought as strong as ever.