Lawrence Lessig Quotes about Technology

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Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

Lawrence Lessig

Creativity, Technology, Opportunity

Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.151, Penguin

Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?

Lawrence Lessig

Creativity, Technology, Law

Lawrence Lessig (2009). “Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy”, p.107, A&C Black

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

Lawrence Lessig

Mean, Technology, Amazing Things

Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

Lawrence Lessig

Creativity, Technology, Law

Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.

Lawrence Lessig

Silly, Technology, Thinking

Lawrence Lessig Quotes about Technology

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