Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.

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.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

Let me tell you something about my family. We're as thick as thieves and we protect each other 'til the end.

Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet.

The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.

Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

You want an Open title by your name. To finally get it, even though it's a Senior Open, I still regard it as a very high honor.

The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.

She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.

I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.