“We are not here to create a more just society. We are here to keep the trains running on time.”— Paul Vixie
“The problem with DNS is that it was designed in a different era, for a different Internet.”— Paul Vixie
“The Net is a world of pure information. In the world of pure information, the only constraint is the human imagination.”— John Perry Barlow
“The 'Net is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”— Vernor Vinge
“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone.”— John Perry Barlow
“We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.”— John Perry Barlow
“The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.”— John Perry Barlow
“The great and vaunted democratic forum of the Internet has, in fact, been a wonderful way to cement group-think.”— Mitchell Kapor
“The great thing about the Internet is that you can be anyone you want to be. The bad thing is, so can everyone else.”— Steven Levy