On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

We can influence the future but not see it.

Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

Information wants to be free.

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.