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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Loyalty to others speaks volumes about loyalty to self. To love others, one must truly love him/herself first.

Crying doesn't make you weak. There's sixteen years of tears in that body of yours, and you have to let some of it go.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.

Secrets of the heart are seldom news.

What you can't pay back you pay forward.

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

Our baboon was going completely sky goddess - which is to say, nuts.