Patentable Subject Matter Quotes

#1. All inventions are not patentable, and all patented subjects are not inventions.

Kalyan C. Kankanala

#2. I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue - or rather by vice - of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines

John Philip Sousa

#3. There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.

E. Nesbit

#4. Lovin this Ghost Ghirls! It was great to get to play a madame not just a boring prostitute.

Natasha Leggero

#5. I mean," I said, "it's not like the lake is a living thing." This was perhaps the worst thing I could have said. He looked suddenly alarmed. He put a hand, sticky as it was with gray sand, over my mouth. "Hush, darlin' girl! Hush! The lake hears your every word and knows your every thought.

Graham Joyce

#6. Every kid thinks they have something special about themselves. Every adult thinks they have a big idea at some point in their life. Rather than pursue every thing they possibly can to prepare themselves to enable their idea or special talent, they tend to wing it and make excuses.

Mark Cuban

#7. The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

William Vickrey

#8. What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.

Jane Hirshfield

#9. When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with, are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.

Finn Jones

#11. Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

Thomas Bangalter

#12. I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.

Jerry Rice

#13. We'd read about sirens in English this fall; Greek mythology bullshit about women so beautiful, their voices so enchanting, that men did anything for them. Turned out that mythology crap was real because every time I saw her, I lost my mind.

Katie McGarry

#14. Instead of taking care to acquaint ourselves with others, we only think of making ourselves known to them. It would be better to listen to other people in order to become enlightened rather than to speak so as to shine in front of them.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#15. At some point in the journey of being in it for yourself, you realize you need other people. Any good frontier story, in some respect, is about that.

Jonathan E. Steinberg