John Perry Barlow Quotes
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The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
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The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.
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We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
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Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.
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Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
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I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
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It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
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The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.
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The stratosphere is my church.
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The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.
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If you have the 'Total Information Awareness' project working, it might be relatively easy to find everyone who had bought more than a ton of fertilizer and 500 gallons of diesel in the last year, which would be a great way of spotting potential Tim McVeighs - but it would also spot half the farmers and ranchers in America.
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I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.
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I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.
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But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.
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Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
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I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.
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In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.