I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.
John Perry BarlowThe one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
John Perry BarlowThe Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.
John Perry BarlowThe 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.
John Perry Barlow