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- Free Press
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 place. And politics is all about doing favors.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 consumes attention, and there's too much information.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.
- Nov 07, 2020
I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
- Corollary
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 honestly is a killer.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.
- Institute
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ambition is to figure out how to help people create their own health and how to turn that into a profitable business.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing something totally new is tricky. If you are second - and if you are smart - you can learn from the first person's mistakes.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It offends me when people do useless work.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge of email is that people send you stuff for free, and it becomes items on your to-do list.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normal people with normal lives are not going to ask for sugar-free yogurt. They just take the stuff with sugar in it.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge of ensuring adequate, nutrient-rich food for an expanding global population is a daunting one, especially given constraints on key resources like water and agricultural land.
- Conference
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- Nov 07, 2020
Summer is conference season - a critical time for building brands, making connections, and shaping industries.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had the same apartment in New York City for almost 40 years but have actually lived in it for less than half of that time, owing to a busy travel schedule.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most interesting lessons often lie in the mundane - those aspects of everyday life that locals take for granted and tourists tend to overlook.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path - not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this the age of concern over privacy invasion and surveillance and manipulation, people will start to realize that there is no way to avoid being manipulated by other people, governments, marketers, and the like.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are both scientists. They like order.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became the research department for a firm on Wall Street and eventually started working on the newsletter 'Release 1.0,' which I ran for 25 years. That was how I learned all about PCs and the Internet.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone will tell you if you want to run a business, you need to monitor costs and revenues. In the same manner, if you want to run your body, you need to monitor intake and returns. It's in your best interest.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is like a series of comic strips, which is why I like investing: I really like new stuff.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020