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.

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

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.

If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.

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.

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