“Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today’s richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.”

—  Mark Getty

"Blood and Oil," The Economist (March 4, 2000), p. 68

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