If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

Like all security, privacy is hard.

Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever.