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"A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell."
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"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."
"Paradise will be a kind of library."
"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."
"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."
"There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo."
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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 sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded."
"What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press."
"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."
"Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away."
"I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago."
"Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities."
"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."
"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect."
"As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom."
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