[...] The phrase surprised the marquess, because it was the same thing that he had thought when four o'clock had passed. To the bishop it looked like it was a natural coincidence. “The ideas are nobody's” - he said. It drew in air with his finger a series of continuous circles, and concluded: “They fly there in circles, like angels” [...]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Of Love and Other Demons"

[...] In Sanskrit, "yoga" means "union." Indians believe in a universal mind - brahman - of which we are all a part, and which ponders eternally. Everyone has access to this knowledge.

Knowledge in ancient India was protected by caste lines, not legal or economic ones. The term "intellectual property" was an oxymoron: the intellect could not be anybody's property. [...]

It is on most newspaper today, read on for example at Herald Tribune.

This patent and copyright thing is becoming more and more ridiculous every day.