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Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.
Lawrence Lessig
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Lawrence Lessig
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 3
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Lester Lawrence Lessig III
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Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.
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There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved. Regardless of the good in those ideas, it wouldn't.
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I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.
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All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
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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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A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
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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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Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our constitutional structure. And I think if we did that, then the will of the people would not be overturned.
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I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.
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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.
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I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.
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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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One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that apolitical means you lose. It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.
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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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In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.
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Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.
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If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.
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We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, I speak as a citizen of the world without others saying, God, what a nut.
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Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.
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