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.
Lawrence LessigSo uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.
Lawrence LessigWe 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."
Lawrence Lessig[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare
Lawrence LessigNow 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.
Lawrence LessigI am big supporter of the idea of a global anti-corruption movement - but one that begins by recognizing that the architecture of corruption is different in different countries. The corruption we suffer is not the same as the corruption that debilitates Africa. But it is both corruption, and both need to be eliminated if the faith in democracy is not going to be destroyed.
Lawrence Lessig