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 the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.