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"From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance."
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"These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television."

"Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business."
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"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer."

"In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses."

"There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes."

"I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government."

"Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first."

"But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it."

"Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities."

"I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago."
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