David Boies Quotes

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• Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data.…
• It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have…
• We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.
• The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
• When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only…
• Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.
• Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement?…
• I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our history,…
• The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down…
• But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned…
• I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in…
• I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.
• You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up…

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