Let the path be open to talent.
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.
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.
Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.
Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our constitutional structure. And I think if we did that, then the will of the people would not be overturned.
We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut. "
No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.
We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.
When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.
The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free!