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John Perry Barlow Quotes

1947–2018 United States

John Perry Barlow (3 October 1947 – 7 February 2018) was an American poet, essayist, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, cattle rancher, cyberlibertarian political activist, and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Freedom of the Press Foundation.

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Also known as: Barlow, John Perry, John perry barlow

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Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)

The other message we wished to convey was one of faith in the essential goodness and purpose of life. I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know.

The Death of Cynthia Horner (1994)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Perry Barlow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.