We had made a - sort of a national decision that we wanted to be this intellectual property country, where we would have things manufactured in China, but we would do the design, we would do the creative stuff.And now what we have done is, we have forgotten that that's what we wanted, and we're making the intellectual stuff more and more free. And, so, we're sort of left with less and less.

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

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.

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.