One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

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.

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

The church was made for mission-God's mission

I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.

I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?

I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.

I mean, some people accuse me of being racist. I'm totally not, I'm just better than everybody else.