“We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.”— John Perry Barlow
“Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.”— John Perry Barlow
“Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications.”— John Perry Barlow
“We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours.”— John Perry Barlow