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John Perry Barlow

poet, songwriter, essayist, blogger, farmer, Internet activist, husbandry worker, lyricist

1947  – 2018

John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, cattle rancher, and cyberlibertarian political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He was also a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and an early fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

All Quotes by John Perry Barlow

“I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.”
— John Perry Barlow
“But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.”
— John Perry Barlow
“I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.”
— John Perry Barlow
“Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.”
— John Perry Barlow
“The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.”
— John Perry Barlow
“I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.”
— John Perry Barlow
“It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.”
— John Perry Barlow
“Copyright and intellectual property are the most important issues now. If you don't have something that assures fair use, then you don't have a free society. If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.”
— John Perry Barlow
“Polyamory — that's where you're freely confessed that you have more than one lover at a time. And actually I'm less that way than I used to be, but I was trying to make people understand, that at least for some folks, this was a fairly natural state. And instead of skulking around about it that we'd all do better to avoid the deceit and be honest.”
— John Perry Barlow
“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.”
— John Perry Barlow