John Perry Barlow
We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.Collection: Air
Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.Collection: Real
Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.Collection: Art
I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance.Collection: Running
God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.Collection: Soul
I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'Collection: Real
Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business.Collection: Art
I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know.Collection: Mean
Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.Collection: Change
The more you've got, the shorter it feels.Collection: Internet
One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?Collection: Government
The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state.Collection: Real
The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.Collection: Battle
I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.Collection: Expression
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.Collection: Winning
I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.Collection: Criminals
Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.Collection: Creating
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.Collection: Differences