Incompetence is a double-edged banana. John Perry Barlow More Quotes by John Perry Barlow More Quotes From John Perry Barlow The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. John Perry Barlow censorshipinternettechnology God's jokes are the soul's curriculum. John Perry Barlow curriculumjokessoul I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know. John Perry Barlow mattermeanway The more you've got, the shorter it feels. John Perry Barlow free-speechinternetfeels The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops. John Perry Barlow troopswikileaksbattle Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business. John Perry Barlow holyprayingart Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government. John Perry Barlow governmentworrythinking I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance. John Perry Barlow racerunningtwo So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. John Perry Barlow moralpartywaiting One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread. John Perry Barlow dreadoptimisticmay I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. John Perry Barlow niecemeanlooks 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 royaltyticketsmusician I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace. John Perry Barlow supportpoisonexpression I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior. John Perry Barlow personal-behaviorbehaviorlaw New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions. John Perry Barlow adoptionvirtuewinning One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles? John Perry Barlow governmentimaginationsight Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. John Perry Barlow usualboundariesage The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state. John Perry Barlow creatingrealideas I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves. John Perry Barlow criminalscaveswonder 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. John Perry Barlow namessightideas
