New media, like any chaotic system, are highly sensitive to initial conditions. Today's heuristical answers of the moment become tomorrow's permanent institutions of both law and expectation.

When the media ask him [George W. Bush] a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

We were so lost in generica, I actually forgot what city we were in

I had heard about them [acid tests] and was deeply offended along with everybody else in my sort of Eastern Orthodox Church of LSD, ... We thought it was a very serious sacrament and should not be handed out in bathtubs for people to drink as much as they want.