And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.

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

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

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

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'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.