And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.

People will say, "there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.

On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

I think at the end of a show, you have to walk out with a message. That's my hardest struggle right now; that's what I'm working towards.

Most people today in our churches are lost, and they demonstrate that they are lost because their entire Christianity is nothing more than, 'They made a decision.'

In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.