“I can't quit, once I've started. I've been told I'm pathologically persistent. I can't quit.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
“But I can't. Need is not quite belief.”
With Mercy for the Greedy
Variant: Need is not quite belief.
Source: All My Pretty Ones (1962)
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poet from the United States 1928–1974Related quotes
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Context: Our problem is that lawyers have taught us that there is only one kind of economic market for innovation out there and it is this kind of isolated inventor who comes up with an idea and then needs to be protected. That is a good picture of maybe what pharmaceutical industry does. It's a bad picture of what goes on, for example, in the context of software development, in particular. In the context of software development, where you have sequential and complementary developments, patents create an extraordinarily damaging influence on innovation and on the process of developing and bringing new ideas to market. So the particular mistake that lawyers have compounded is the unwillingness to discriminate among different kinds of innovation.
We really need to think quite pragmatically about whether intellectual property is helping or hurting, and if you can't show it's going to help, then there is no reason to issue this government-backed monopoly.
“I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.”
Source: Christopher and His Kind (1976), p. 306