10 Quotes by John Gilmore

Now, I’d like to ask people in the room, please raise your hand if you have not broken a law, any law, in the past month... That’s the kind of society I want to build. I want to guarantee — with physics and mathematics, not with laws — that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

We believe that the latest IANA/NSI proposal does not follow the requirements set forth by the white paper for protecting openness and free expression,

We had a very talented team at Aragon last year, ... but beating Serra with everything they had going for them was something.

I did this because I'd like to make a stand against violence - plus I look pretty good in these heels. It really is important to get peoples' attention about this thing, because violence against women on campus is a big deal.

I was in my house; didn't have no boat,

The software that resulted is fully appropriate. It is in fact the Linux open-source software for playing movies on your computer screen.

Something is fundamentally broken at the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control.

This is where my heart was. I was doing the whole business part of it, but this is where I wanted to be all along.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.