Lawrence Lessig Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Trying, Refrain

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

• Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Past, Innovation

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

• One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Giving, Modern

  Lawrence Lessig (2009). “Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy”, p.140, A&C Black

• Freedom is about stopping the past.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Stopping, Refrain

  Lawrence Lessig's keynote address at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon, July 24, 2002.

• A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Culture, Path

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

• Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Trying, Stopping

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

• A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Powerful, Past, Rights

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