All John Perry Barlow Quotes
- The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. Censorship
- Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. Asking
- But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having. Groundless
- So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. Actually Gets
- 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… Already Provide
- 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. Civilization
- 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,… Anti
- I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings. Among
- 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… Beliefs
- 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… Any
- 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… All
- The future's here, we are it, we are on our own Funny
- New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions. Adopted
- We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. Capture
- We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat. Air
- I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. Day
- 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… All
- 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… Came
- I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior. Antismoking
- 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… Business
- Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely… Age
- 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… Completely
- The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force… Countervailing
- When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. Cryptography
- With the development of the Internet...we are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. I used to think… Biggest