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In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.
Lawrence Lessig
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Lawrence Lessig
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 3
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When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
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Writing is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.
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If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.
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This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.
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One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.
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Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.
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The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
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Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?
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I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.
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