John Perry Barlow Quotes
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Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.
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When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
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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 that it was just the biggest thing since Gutenberg, but now I think you have to go back farther.
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I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
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I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.
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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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Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony
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Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.
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We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.
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Incompetence is a double-edged banana.
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Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.
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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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If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.
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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 filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.
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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 to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
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One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.
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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 to mitigate the idiocy of this age.
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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 the trouble put in.
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The future's here, we are it, we are on our own
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I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance.
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God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.
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I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.
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Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business.
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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 we are worrying about government.
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We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
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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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The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
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The more you've got, the shorter it feels.
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