When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
Lawrence LessigThe popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.
Lawrence LessigA time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.
Lawrence LessigI'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?
Lawrence Lessig