Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

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.

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

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

If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.