John Perry Barlow Quotes

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.

If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

The stratosphere is my church.

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.

The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.

We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target ... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.

Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony

God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.

The more you've got, the shorter it feels.

The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.

Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander ... It's just an extension of humanity.

I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.

the first responsibility of a human
being is to be a better ancestor.