Past Quotes by Lawrence Lessig

It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.…

— Lawrence Lessig

As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike.…

— Lawrence Lessig

I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed…

— Lawrence Lessig

Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.

— Lawrence Lessig

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

— Lawrence Lessig

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

— Lawrence Lessig

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we…

— Lawrence Lessig

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

— Lawrence Lessig

But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of…

— Lawrence Lessig

If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights…

— Lawrence Lessig

Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push…

— Lawrence Lessig

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The…

— Lawrence Lessig

As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It…

— Lawrence Lessig

I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system…

— Lawrence Lessig

There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved.…

— Lawrence Lessig