85 Quotes by John Perry Barlow

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

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

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.