John Perry Barlow Quotes

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• The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
• Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
• But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
• So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
• You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any…
• 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.
• The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone,…
• I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.
• I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of…
• Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform…
• One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch…
• The future's here, we are it, we are on our own
• New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.
• We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.
• We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
• I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.
• If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an…
• 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…
• I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.
• 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…

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