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.
Lawrence LessigThere is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved. Regardless of the good in those ideas, it wouldn't.
Lawrence LessigI 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 LessigI'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.
Lawrence Lessig