It’s a real challenge if you want to take this on, if you want to do it well without destroying a lot of value that’s being created.

A lot of governments fear American imperialism of all kinds, whether it is our food or our Internet. I think that the people like McDonald’s hamburgers and they also like the Internet, so it’s kind...

And the Russians certainly don’t have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she’s a crook. And that’s me, the nice American. The assumption that you can’t make money...

Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money,...

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don’t get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

Today’s announcement marks a major milestone in the joint efforts of the public and private sectors to bring Internet users the benefits of real competition in registration services in the most popular Internet domains —...

There are not going to be giant revelations. We’re just telling the truth.

Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.

The internet has many fathers but he’s one of the main ones. He’s an evangelist to the internet community and the technical community.

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers’ co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

The Internet has many fathers but he was one of the chief fathers.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that’s personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

Who? What? Where? Data Comes Alive.

Since I became chairman, I’ve tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

We will have higher prices for better services and lower prices for less quality.

From the business point of view – not to overstate it – intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

I became a real free market fanatic. I’m probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

Don’t leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you’re doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don’t think about technology first.

That was when I decided that I was going to keep doing this as half of what I was doing – just somehow try to foster Silicon Valley in Eastern Europe.

This changes the balance of power.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers’ rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody – government stay away.

I had taken Russian in high school, but then I hadn’t done anything with it. I’d always wanted to go to Russia but I was busy with my day job.

The simple truth is that it will get better, but it won’t go back to being what we thought was normal before, … That was nutty.

There’s almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you’re at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes.

[In the meantime, ICANN will set up minimum requirements for new domains to guide potential applicants.] We’ve got to get the policies out first, … If I’m going to apply for something, I want to...

What I’m thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson’s saying that he’d rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

There are also computers with Windows that stick.

You have to be a grownup. You have to decide what government should do and not do. And what’s its appropriate size and what’s its appropriate scale.

It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, … In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of...

[Dyson defended the moves. She said that the board had to be formed so it could negotiate with critics.] We decided we needed to be something concrete rather than something nebulous you couldn’t negotiate with,...

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works – I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the...

We’re trying to reach out to users – not just from start-ups, but also the corporate types.

It’s sad. The kids are growing up. They’ve lost youth and innocence. Now they have to start being grown-ups and playing at least to some extent by grown-up rules.

The increasing incidence of reporting of lost private personal records poses a serious threat to consumer confidence — and to vendor profits. Yet it is the right thing to do because it is forcing companies...

Encryption…is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government… It’s hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes – I don’t think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn’t vote for a...

Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don’t expect the world that we’re familiar with to be perfect.

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it...

These two sessions are the part of PC Forum where the users really take charge. Our general sessions get active audience participation, but in our breakout sessions there is no audience. The breakouts this year...

Our job is not simply to accredit registrars. It’s to make sure the test works,

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there – there’s a scarcity of attention. Information...

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can’t jump on the Internet to freedom.

The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it’s the system – there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it’s a sleazy...

We decided we needed to be something concrete rather than something nebulous you couldn’t negotiate with. This is an interim board. Our job is to figure out how to create a permanent system with a...

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

We try to reflect Internet opinion and not go off half-cocked.