Lawrence Lessig Quotes

Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

Lawrence Lessig

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SpaceFactsInternetYouPlaceKnow

What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the genre of reality like it's television from the devil, and that's something that I don't like because I think everybody should watch what they like. It's a free world. It's a form of democracy. If you like it, watch. If you don't like it, don't watch.

John de Mol, Jr.

PeopleDemocracyWorldFreeThink

In big battle scenes, like 'King Arthur', you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they're not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you'll find some poor little sod, who didn't want to be there, anyway, with his head split.

Michael Foreman

PerspectiveKingBattleYouFind

I get very few nasty letters. A few from people who disapprove of the fact that I'm getting naked on television yet again. I don't know why - I suppose they don't like the idea that I'm doing that while I'm married with children.

Rupert Penry-Jones

ChildrenPeopleDoingTelevisionWhy

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Douglas MacArthur

LiveDieAfraidOnlyFitWho

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

Denis McDonough

FamilyProudMinnesotaUpCatholic

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Douglas Adams

FamilyBirdSmallDuckHandsLooks

Today's energy mix is the result of yesterday's consumer habits, considerable investment, and various political decisions. The potential of renewable energies, now a well-established fact, is undeniable if given the time to arrive at the technical and economic maturity that will free them from subsidization policies.

Christophe de Margerie

TodayTimeMaturityFreeEnergy

I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Phil Gingrey

I AmYouthPoliticalOpponentGoing

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

Tom Berenger

HeroVillainThinkEndYouPerson

New Zealand's economy may be more immune... from the waves of disruption elsewhere, but I guarantee you, it's not that immune.

Richard Quest

WavesYouNewMoreEconomyMay

I feel privileged that people are looking up to me, and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.

Lupita Nyong'o

PeopleMeLookingFeelDreamBorn

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

Lewis Thomas

TimeBestDaySunKnowGeometry

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