Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.

I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance.

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

One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

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

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