Lawrence Lessig

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

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.