“But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a people or a society, even if they are wars of survival ...”

“Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology ena...”

“Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the Innovators Dilemma: the fact that large traditional firms find it ra...”

“It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. Thats not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget....”

“Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The effect is to produce an over-regulated culture, just as the effect of ...”

“So, ignorant we are. But we're not stupid. Indeed...remaining ignorant about politics and our government is a perfectly rational response to the government we have. The question isn't what we know....”

“Im not good enough for Duke. Im good enough for you.”

“Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'loquence d'une parole avec la justesse d'une pense.”

“Quality, relevant content can't be spotted by an algorithm. You can't subscribe to it. You need people - actual human beings - to create or curate it.”

“With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order the...”

“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”

“The mediastenographers to power.”