An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.

Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.

If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.