John Perry Barlow Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.”

“I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.”

“In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.”

“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 of your impositions.”

“I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.”

“I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.”

“Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.”

“The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.”

“The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.”

“They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.”