Patent Law & Intellectual Property

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
~Plato, Dialogues, Apology

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
~Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
~Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
~Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
~George F. Will (1941 - ), Statecraft as Soulcraft

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
~Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
~unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
~Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
~Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
~Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
~Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus

Fortune favors the brave.
~Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
~John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
~General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
~Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
~Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
~Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
~Alan Kay

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
~Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Love truth, and pardon error.
~Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
~Farmers' Almanac, 1978

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
~Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

We need men who can dream of things that never were.
~John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
~Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
~Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
~Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
~Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )

Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
~Michele Shea

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
~Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

A small rock holds back a great wave.
~Homer, The Odyssey

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
~Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
~Ellen Parr

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
~Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

The chief business of the American people is business.
~Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
~Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), Secretary of Defense

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
~George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Knowledge is power.
~Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
~Homer, The Iliad

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Technology and the Future"

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
~Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
~Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
~Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
~Stephen Nachmanovitch

America's greatest strength and its greatest weakness is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
~Anthony Walton

He who knows others is wise; he who know himself is enlightened.
~Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
~Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
~Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

This England never did, nor never shall, lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
~William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King John", Act 5 scene 7

Truth is truth.
~William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
~Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
~Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
~Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
~William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
~William Shakespeare

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
~Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles

You always pass failure on the way to success.
~Mickey Rooney (1920 -2014)

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
~Arnold Bennett

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
~ Plato, The Republic

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
~Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
~Plato

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
~Brenda Ueland

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
~Arnold Palmer (1929 -2016)

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
~William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)