"But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having."
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"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.“
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"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."
-John Perry Barlow
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"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it."
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"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales."
-John Perry Barlow
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"They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases."
-John Perry Barlow
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"You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions."
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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute."
-J. G. Ballard
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