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

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

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

From John Perry Barlow

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

From John Perry Barlow

Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

From John Perry Barlow

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.

From John Perry Barlow

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

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It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

From John Perry Barlow

Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.

From John Perry Barlow

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.

From John Perry Barlow

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