Brad Templeton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away from the landowner when you trespass, most people understand and respect the laws that make it illegal. The real crime in copyright violation is not the making of the copies, it's the expropriation of the creator's right to control the creation.
-- Brad Templeton

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I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.
-- Brad Templeton

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It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.
-- Brad Templeton

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The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks.
-- Brad Templeton

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A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure
This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.
The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.

Brad Templeton famous quotes

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