Bruce Lerner

Being American is simple, but people like Bush and Rove and Cheney made
it complicated. Americans get shit done, and Americans don't argue when
their neighbor's house is on fire. We roll up our sleeves and we can do
great things. For better or worse now we need to do some great things.
We're lucky that now we have the leadership we need to get started.

"Your computer should listen to you, and not some coked up Hollywood fat cat thousands of miles away in Hollywood who decided what you can and can't do with a movie"

"The EFF exists, so that your decendents will have the right to know, regardless of where they are on this planet and that if one of them want to say something, he will be able to or she will be able to, and if somebody else wants to hear what that person said, they will be able to, its as simple as that.

"To take what is after all a government granted monoploy, that's intended to provide the minimum incentive necessary to produce the largest amount of work and bootstrap that into a right to control how devices are designed, how they're used, what you can do in the privacy of your own home, your own private use of and reuse of material, is bizarre and completely out of step with the historical contours of copyright law"

"DRM is technology that is used to make your computer take orders from someone other than you ....... The difference between a utopia and a distopia is whether we control the machines or the machines control us."

The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed.

If you are not happy with the state of the world then ask yourself Whether in order to secure the future of your individual child or your grandchild, is it enough for you to just buy life insurance for your child or to take out a remainder trust or to pay your child's tuition at a good school, or ask yourself whether perhaps you had better also do something for your child's world as a whole, ask yourself am I wasting all my efforts on behalf of my ind. child, am I throwing away all that money on life ins.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

Technology is not neutral ...could be a force for putting us in more control of our lives and giving us more freedom or it could be a force for giving us less control of our lives and making it easier for people to take away our freedoms