Alex Kozinski Quotes

Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.

Alex Kozinski

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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Health
  • Question
  • Healthy

• I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Strong
  • Always
  • Body

• I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Drama
  • Act
  • Queen

• A lot of people don't want to deal with the effort needed to secure your bitcoins. That's why we started to build Gemini, which is a U.S.-based exchange with compliance - it's NASDAQ, E-Trade and DTC built into one.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • Want
  • Admit

• I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went in. That's a lot of pressure, isn't it? The first person in the world.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • World
  • Me
  • Pressure

• Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Time
  • English
  • Said

• Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Music
  • Lying
  • Bed

• I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Eyes
  • Boy
  • Leaving

• It's not personal, it's strictly business.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Business
  • Personal

• There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Universe

• I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Novel

• We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• I feel very troubled in the head and heart.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Heart
  • Feels
  • Head And Heart

• All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Men
  • History

• Well, I'm not saying that America is a bad place or anything. I just think 9/11 needed to happen sooner or later.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Bad

• It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Women
  • Property
  • Subjects

• Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own.

  

  Sallust
  • Property
  • Greedy
  • Extravagant

• The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.

  

  Michael Ritchie
  • Theater
  • Particular
  • Audiences

• Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Suffering
  • Resistance
  • Reverse

• Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.

  

  Alex Kozinski
  • Intellectual
  • Property
  • Overprotection