Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.

Where do vanished objects go?" "Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall. "Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open.

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.

It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.

Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place.

Persons are to be loved; things are to be used.

I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.

Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.