"One can imagine the government's problem. This is……" — John Perry Barlow
"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 coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?"
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John Perry Barlow
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47 Quotes by John Perry Barlow
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The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
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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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But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
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You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than…
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We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world…
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The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating…
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I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.
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I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was…
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Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since…
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The future's here, we are it, we are on our own
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New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.
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