... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.