John Perry Barlow Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.”

“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.”

“The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.”

“Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.”

“I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.”

“It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.”

“Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.”

“The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.”

“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.”

“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.”