Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

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.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

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

Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.