Quotes by John Perry Barlow - Page 2

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 / Poet
Arms
Consensus
Creation
Example
Force
Manage
Most Powerful
Powerful
Ruling
Virtuous
Believes
Involve
Ways
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Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business.
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Art
Holy
Praying
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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 / Poet
Copying
Movie Business
Stick
Sharing
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I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance.
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Running
Race
Two
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Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. 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 / Poet
Relationship
Audience
Musician
Royalty
Tickets
Economically
Writers
Large
Performance
Musicians
Royalties
Sales
Ticket
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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 / Poet
Fantasy
Half
Missing
Pursue
Together
Together Long People
Dismiss
Either
Futile
Outset
Real Thing
Search
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With the development of the Internet...we are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. I used to think that it was just the biggest thing since Gutenberg, but now I think you have to go back farther.
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Events
Fire
Thinking
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Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Connections
Creating
Humanity
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The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state.
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Creating
Ideas
Real
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I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Economy
Giving
Goods
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Natural
Objects
Oxymoron
Possession
Property
Remains
Thinking
Tricky
After
Your Own Try
Personally
Physical
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One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Government
Imagination
Sight
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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.
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Legal
Cases
Domain
Forgotten
Goods
Illegal
Ought
Public Domain
Purpose
Trading
Claim
Public
Networks
Owned
Saying
Seem
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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 / Poet
Legal
Awareness
Consequence
Databases
Diabolical
Limits
Patriot
Patriot Act
Commercial
First Place
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Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Change
Firsts
People
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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 / Poet
Access
Computer
Data
Google
Information
Processing
Providers
Service Providers
Apple
Cloud
Number
Increasingly
Leverage
Limit
Observe
Service
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The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Availability
Data
Entity
Surveillance
Assimilate
Creates
Digestive
Empower
Functions
Possibly
Specific
Strengthens
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If you have the 'Total Information Awareness' project working, it might be relatively easy to find everyone who had bought more than a ton of fertilizer and 500 gallons of diesel in the last year, which would be a great way of spotting potential Tim McVeighs - but it would also spot half the farmers and ranchers in America.
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Diesel
Easy
Fertilizer
Half
Information
Last Year
Bought
Project
Great Way
Spot
Last
Relatively
Tim
Ton
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I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Feelings
Objectivity
Real
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Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Opportunity
Entrepreneur
Numbers
Real
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If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.
John Perry Barlow / Poet
Art
Men
Intelligent
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