John Barlow Quotations

New media, like any chaotic system, are highly sensitive to initial conditions. Today's heuristical answers of the moment become tomorrow's permanent institutions of both law and expectation.

Cell phones make a lot of sense from a certain standpoint. They're great for calling and for a certain kind of e-mail. But if you want to experience cyberspace in any meaningful way you can't do it with a cell phone.

I fought it hammer and tong, but the drummers had inoperable bricks in their head about it. What's worse is that they now want to remove all Dead music from the Web.

That's a world worth taking a risk for,

We were so lost in generica, I actually forgot what city we were in

Something like this (Digital Universe) is a vision of the future that will probably come to pass, but it won't be implemented like this because their vision is too comprehensive. They want to cover everything, which is generally a bad way to go.

They have no home town, urban life is standardised and they come from a place called Generica

In Cyberspace, the 1st Amendment is a local ordinance