John Perry Barlow Quotes

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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

  Technology, Government, Asking

  "The Guardian view on internet privacy: it’s the psychology, stupid". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2018.

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• If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

  John Perry Barlow

  Ideas, Ignorant Masses, Comeback

  "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August 1, 2004.

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• If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer.

  John Perry Barlow

  Lost, Lost You, Explorers

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• If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.

  John Perry Barlow

  Art, Intelligent, Men

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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

  Technology, Government, Civilization

  "On Cat Videos and Human Rights" by Christina Gagnier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2010.

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• When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

  John Perry Barlow

  Cryptography, Computer, Internet

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• I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

  John Perry Barlow

  Home, Past, Mind

  "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" by John Perry Barlow, www.eff.org. February 8, 1996.

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• We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

  John Perry Barlow

  Creating, Silence, World

  "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace". www.eff.org. February 8, 1996.

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

  John Perry Barlow

  Love, Inspirational, Hope

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• I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

  John Perry Barlow

  Believe, Angel, Sometimes

  "The Death of Cynthia Horner" by John Perry Barlow, w2.eff.org. April 1994.

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• Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony

  John Perry Barlow

  Thinking, Tolerance, Determined

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• We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

  John Perry Barlow

  Fire, Events, Middle

  "alt.fans" by Gregory Benford, reason.com. January 1996.

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• One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

  John Perry Barlow

  Optimistic, May, Dread

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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.

  John Perry Barlow

  Order, Culture, Our Society

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• Hope does not always require probability.

  John Perry Barlow

  Doe, Probability

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• With the development of the Internet...we are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. I used to think that it was just the biggest thing since Gutenberg, but now I think you have to go back farther.

  John Perry Barlow

  Thinking, Fire, Events

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• Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

  John Perry Barlow

  Bananas, Incompetence

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• We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

  John Perry Barlow

  Air, Wings, Choke

  "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" by John Perry Barlow, www.eff.org. February 8, 1996.

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• Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.

  John Perry Barlow

  Real, Opportunity, Numbers

  "Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World". Book by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, March 2006.

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• The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

  John Perry Barlow

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• The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

  John Perry Barlow

  Technology, Censorship, Internet

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• 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

  Running, Two, Race

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• Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

  John Perry Barlow

  Art, Musician, Ashes

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• God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.

  John Perry Barlow

  Soul, Curriculum, Jokes

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• I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'

  John Perry Barlow

  Real, Objectivity, Feelings

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