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Writing is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.
Lawrence Lessig
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Lawrence Lessig
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 3
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Rapid City
South Dakota
Larry Lessig
Lester Lawrence Lessig III
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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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Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
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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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[Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.
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You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work
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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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My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who? ... The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.
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A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
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