John Perry Barlow Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Art, Praying, Holy

  "The Next Economy Of Ideas". www.wired.com. October 01, 2000.

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• 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

  Mean, Matter, Way

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

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• In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

  John Perry Barlow

  Space, Politics, Firsts

  "Can't censor the internet? Tell that to your compliant ISP" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2006.

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• Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.

  John Perry Barlow

  Change, People, Firsts

  "The Economy of Ideas" by John Perry Barlow, www.wired.com. March 01, 1994.

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• The more you've got, the shorter it feels.

  John Perry Barlow

  Internet, Free Speech, Feels

  "John Perry Barlow – Cyber Cowboy (The Civilization of Cyberspace #1)". Interview with John Gerstner, www.johngerstner.com. May 11, 2017.

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• I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

  John Perry Barlow

  Thinking, Giving, Intellectual

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

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• 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

  Government, Sight, Imagination

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• 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

  Real, Ideas, Creating

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• The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

  John Perry Barlow

  Battle, Troops, Wikileaks

  John Perry Barlow @JPBarlow, twitter.com. December 3, 2010.

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• 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

  Thinking, Government, Worry

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

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• I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

  John Perry Barlow

  Niece, Mean, Looks

  "John Perry Barlow: Wyoming's Estimated Prophet". Interview with Aaron Davis, July 28, 2005.

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• But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

  John Perry Barlow

  Political, Degrees, Engagement

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

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• So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

  John Perry Barlow

  Party, Waiting, Moral

  "John Perry Barlow: Wyoming's Estimated Prophet: Interview with Aaron Davis". Planet J.H. Weekly, July 28, 2005.

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• 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

  Musician, Tickets, Royalty

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• 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

  Expression, Support, Poison

  "Analysis: WikiLeaks battle: a new amateur face of cyber war?" by Peter Apps, www.reuters.com. December 9, 2010.

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• 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

  Age, Usual, Boundaries

  "Terrorism and Democracy in Madrid". Personal blog "BarlowFriendz", March 10, 2005.

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• I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

  John Perry Barlow

  Law, Behavior, Personal Behavior

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• New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

  John Perry Barlow

  Winning, Adoption, Virtue

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• 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

  Criminals, Caves, Wonder

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• 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

  Sight, Names, Ideas

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• I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.

  John Perry Barlow

  Believe, Miracle, Magic

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

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• Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.

  John Perry Barlow

  Creating, Humanity, Connections

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• The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

  John Perry Barlow

  Government, Monopoly, Force

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

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• The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

  John Perry Barlow

  Differences, Privacy, Shame

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