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alpha0  ·  4837 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Paul Graham: The Patent Pledge

        PG 
	Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows
	reformation. There shall be in England seven
	halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped
	pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony
	to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in
	common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to
	grass: and when I am king, as king I will be,--

        HN 
	God save your majesty!

        PG 
	I thank you, good people: there shall be no money;
	all shall eat and drink ramen on my score; and I will
	apparel them all in one liverĪ», that they may agree
	like brothers and worship me their lord.

        ALPHAZERO 
	The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

        PG 
	Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable
	thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should
	be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled
	o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings:
	but I say, 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal
	once to a thing, and I was never mine own man
	since. How now! who's there?
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1249/text