The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

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

Freedom is about stopping the past.

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.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

There are very few people in our society who are actually free to say what they believe. I am in an extremely fortunate position in having this enormous gift of freedom and believe I should try to use it to do something useful for society. As long as I feel as if I have something to say, I’ll continue to try to do that.