I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.

I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.

Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.