I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.

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.

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

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.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.