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John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow
American Writer
Born: Oct 3, 1947
Died: Feb 7, 2018
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. John Perry Barlow
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But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having. John Perry Barlow
Love Hope Love Is Worth Kind Having Only Unconditional Unconditional Love Like
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. John Perry Barlow
Government Technology Privacy Window Relying Install Like Protect Blinds Asking Your Tom
The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both. John Perry Barlow
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The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. John Perry Barlow
Technology Censorship Internet Around Malfunction Routes Treats
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. John Perry Barlow
Age Everyone Rule Say Seemed Seems Something Boundaries Likely Well Idiocy Within Mitigate Hear His Anyone Usual Playing Set
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. John Perry Barlow
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Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life. John Perry Barlow
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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. John Perry Barlow
You Culture Ethics Society Our More Could Know Obtained Unwritten Provide Than Any Order Your Codes
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. John Perry Barlow
Together People Matter Long Half Futile Ourselves Pursue Outset Knew Missing Most Real Were Years Did Real Thing Where Either Fantasy Dismiss Search Found Thing
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. John Perry Barlow
Government Good Great Monopoly Reliable One Thing Only Know Force Fairly The One Thing Either Against Thing
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. John Perry Barlow
Property Natural Think Physical Objects Goods Economy Intellectual Intellectual Property Than Different Oxymoron Personally
The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual. John Perry Barlow
Internet Power Respects Exaggerate Individual
The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits. John Perry Barlow
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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. John Perry Barlow
World Example Country Creation Think Virtuous Ways Ruling Rather Powerful Involve Most Most Powerful Force Arms Than Manage Being Believes Consensus
Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity. John Perry Barlow
Technology Humanity Powerful Goose Any Just Extension Sauce
The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry. John Perry Barlow
Entertainment People Has-Been Entertainment Industry Industry Always Been Bunch Rough
I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other. John Perry Barlow
Age Think Other Way One-Way More Part Industries Industry Ready Go Itself Than Any Going Movie Movie Industry Information Information Age Adapt
There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business. John Perry Barlow
Business Care Kids Out Seeing About Sharing Because Stick Lot Friends Want Movie Movie Business Movies Them Copying
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. John Perry Barlow
Love Thought Three First Those Sight Invented Had Idea Names Always South Love At First Sight Lady Novelists Things
The stratosphere is my church. John Perry Barlow
Church Stratosphere
Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. John Perry Barlow
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In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. John Perry Barlow
First Local First Amendment Amendment Ordinance Cyberspace
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. John Perry Barlow
You Ethics Will Believe Our Unlike We Cannot Physical Emerge Obtain Identities Self-Interest Governance Order Cannot Bodies Coercion Enlightened
I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior. John Perry Barlow
Law Behavior Strongly Laws Still Opposed Personal Any
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. John Perry Barlow
You Will Assure System Bought Highly Mass Ideas Knowledgeable Intellectually Then Ignorant Elite
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