Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.

A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.

Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.