Idea Ownership Quotes

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

This kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't.

I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

Do not covet your ideas.

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.

Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.

Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people can still make their careers this way. Will whatever comes next allow people to be able to own their ideas and be able to take time to develop them?

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone.

When you work in a creative environment, people get protective about their ideas. Sometimes it's justified; sometimes it's about ego.

When a woman on your team or in your network comes up with an idea, make sure she gets credit for it.

An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you

Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.

I think I've had a lot of experience with watching other people shepherd my ideas with the 'Saw' films. They made four 'Saw' movies without me. I never really had a protective or fierce policy towards that. I let it go.

We tend to blame the physical media for most of our implementation difficulties; for the media are not "ours" in the way the ideas are, and our pride colors our judgement.