If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand.

[Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.