The 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.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

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.

Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

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.