R. H. Barlow Quotes

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

Are you tired? You should be! You've been running through my mind all day.

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.

Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

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.

Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.

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.

There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.

Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.

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

Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

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.

No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.

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.

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

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

The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.

Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

Hope does not always require probability.

After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.

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

I quite like being who I am.

I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History

He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

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.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!

I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.

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

I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.

I’m secretly hoping for the full five.

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.

I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

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

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

Look for magic in the daily routine

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.