Dyson's Law: Do ask; don't lie.

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our country.

I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality --> immortal mistakes.

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.