Will Perry
Will Perry
technology censorship internet
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
wings air choke
We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
order culture our-society
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
home past mind
I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
believe angel sometimes
I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.
creating silence world
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
love inspirational hope
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
art musician ashes
Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.
technology civilization government
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.
art intelligent men
If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.
technology government asking
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
ideas ignorant-masses knowledgeable
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.
entertainment people
The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.
best liberating tool
The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.