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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

~John Perry Barlow

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I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

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The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.

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The stratosphere is my church.

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I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

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But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

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I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.

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I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 3rd, 1947

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