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.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

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

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.

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

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

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.