Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

The lonely? Where's that from?Sadness' best friend. Sadness broughtit along and I couldn't turn it away, soI let it multiply in my pulse instead.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

I want to go after the pharmaceutical companies like Valeant, and Turns that are increasing prices without any regard to the impact on people's health.

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?

Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.

[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.

Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.

Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.