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Danh ngôn của John Perry Barlow (Sứ mệnh: 2)

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
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.
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.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
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.
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.
I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.
The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.
It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.