In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state.