Paulo Coelho's blog entry " My thoughts on S.O.P.A. http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/20/welcome-to-pirate-my-books/", 20 Januar 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2015. <br class="br">Context: As an author, I should be defending ‘intellectual property’, but I’m not. Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written!
“We are pirates of compassion hunting down, hunting down and destroying pirates of profit.”
Paul Watson (1950) Canadian environmental activist
Worldfest video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnhqmF-RBu4 <br class="br"> quote honored on XOEarth award http://xoearth.org/humpback-whale/
Keith Olbermann (1959) American sports and political commentator
Catch Phrases
Source: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann
“Pirates could happen to anyone.”
Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Maxims
“Aren't most of you descended from pirates?”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
Said in 1994 to an inhabitant of the Cayman Islands as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes", BBC News (1 March 2002)
1990s
“It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.”
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
At a retreat in September 1982, as quoted in John Sculley and John A. Byrne, Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple – A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future (1987), p. 157
As quoted or paraphrased in Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur's Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own (2009) by Robert Tuchman, p. 18
1980s
Variant: Why join the Navy . . . if you can be a pirate?
