Quotes
Authors
Lawrence Lessig

"I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed from traditional First Amendment jurisprudence, and that made sense before the Internet. Now there is an unavoidable link between First Amendment interests and the scope of copyright law. The legal system is recognizing for the first time the extraordinary expanse of copyright regulation and its regulation of ordinary free-speech activities."

-- Lawrence Lessig

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“Performance wasnt something that I intended to do. I was doing work that was about process, about the meaning of the making, trying to have a love-hate relationship with the object. I always feel safer if I can bring the viewer back to the making of it. I try to do that in a lot of different ways, by residue, by touch, by these processes that are basic to all of our lives...that people might relate to in terms of process, everyday activities- bathing, eating, etc.”
“There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.”
“In front of other people it was almost always "FrÃ¤ulein Braun." Just as [Eva Braun] called him "der FÃ¼hrer," [Adolf Hitler] called her "FrÃ¤ulein Braun."”
“Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.”
“I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in creation born in the condition that requires immediate surgical correction is the human male.”
“Where there is unconditional love, the wound of one is the wound of all.”
“I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should.”
“I feel most badly, though, [because] after 10 years, I was at the company, I wanted to go back to New York where I was from. Why I didnâ€™t go to Steve Jobs and say, â€˜Steve, letâ€™s figure out how you can come back and lead your company.â€™ I didnâ€™t do that, it was a terrible mistake on my part. I canâ€™t figure out why I didnâ€™t have the wisdom to do that. But I didnâ€™t. And as life has it, shortly after that, I was fired.”

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