Quotes from John Perry Barlow

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.

The stratosphere is my church.

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

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

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

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus - ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms.

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