Quotes from John Perry Barlow

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

Polyamory that's where you're freely confessed that you have more than one lover at a time. And actually I'm less that way than I used to be, but I was trying to make people understand, that at least for some folks, this was a fairly natural state. And instead of skulking around about it that we'd all do better to avoid the deceit and be honest.

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

Don't trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.

Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.

Become less suspicious of joy.

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.

Black throated wind, keeps on pourin' in With its words of a life where nothing is new Ah, mother American night, I pass from the light Ah, I'm drownin' in you

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.

You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot For taste of your elegant pride I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe But at least I'm enjoying the ride

Let your life proceed by its own design.

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

Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.

There was a shift in consciousness underway, but by the end of '67 I felt like we'd gone too far. I actually considered doing something spectacularly terrible to get America's attention on what was going on with us, because we were sort of driving society over a cliff.

Don't ask more of others than you can deliver yourself.

We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different. Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.

You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants.

California, preaching on the burning shore California, I'll be knocking on the golden door Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light Rising up to paradise, I know I'm going to shine

Expand your sense of the possible.

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

In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

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.

They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.

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