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

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

The stratosphere is my church.

God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

Hope does not always require probability.

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

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

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

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

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

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.

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

I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.

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.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

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.

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.

I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

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