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.

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

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

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

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

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.