Freedom is about stopping the past.

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

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.

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.

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.

If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.