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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.

People have to respect intellectual property.

You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.