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.
Lawrence LessigThe legal system doesn't work. Or more accurately, it doesn't work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is corrupt. I don't think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done.
Lawrence LessigShow me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.
Lawrence LessigAll around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
Lawrence Lessig