163 Quotes by Lawrence Lessig

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

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.

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.

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.

If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

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.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.