Catharine Sedgwick famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

  • The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven, The power, which in a sense belongs to none, Thus understood belongs to every one.

  • I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.

  • I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

  • Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

  • Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

  • I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

  • We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.

  • Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

  • Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!