Most companies are reluctant to get the best return on their most valuable assets. … Being publicly branded a patent troll adds to the turmoil. Patent trolls are controversial not because of the destruction attributed to them, but because they strike at the heart of the complex relationship between innovation and commerce. The term has become synonymous with the unfair assertion of IP rights and extortion of damage payments.

, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.148: Let him hardly be possest with an honest curiositie to search out the nature and causes of all things […].

He strikes me as a very well-brought-up young man.

[…] I noticed with surprise, that when I struck the ice with the head of my axe, it resounded like a gong for many rods around, or as if I had struck on a tight drumhead.