[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

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.

That dandy, the sky, enters blue-suitedsun like a scotch in hand.

Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it.

Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.

Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

If Jesus were playing the game, I don't know what he'd do.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.