We 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."

Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.

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

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with. Political discourse becomes isolated, and isolated discourse becomes more extreme.

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.