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The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection?


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ROBERT FROST Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
ROBERT FROST A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
ROBERT FROST The only certain freedom's in departure.
ROBERT FROST Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
ROBERT DELAUNAY It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
ROBERT HUGHES For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, an...
ROBERT LORENZ I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.
ROBERT FULGHUM Clean up your own mess.
ROBERT FULGHUM On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential...
ROBERT FULGHUM I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
ROBERT FULGHUM I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
ROBERT FULGHUM