When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.

We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.

I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.

My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in January of 1996.

I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.

But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.

Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

A lot of parents make you feel very awkward when you meet them.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.

Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.

The first step of any communication is honest & consistent intentions, after this, even if you don't communicate, people will listen, hear & align

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein