John Perry Quotes

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

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.

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hope does not always require probability.

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

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.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.

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.

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

God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.

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

Voltaire was a smart cookie.

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

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.

You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.

The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on.

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.

I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.

I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.

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

Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.