John Perry
John Perry
thinking giving intellectual
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
age usual boundaries
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.
niece mean looks
I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.
winning adoption virtue
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.
change people cuneiform
Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.
believe miracle magic
I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.
politics firsts cyberspace
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
tickets musician royalty
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
caves criminals wonder
I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.
running race two
I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance.
art praying holy
Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business.
bananas incompetence
Incompetence is a double-edged banana.
creating humanity world
Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.
soul curriculum jokes
God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.