A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

- Lawrence Lessig

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

- Lawrence Lessig

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

- Lawrence Lessig

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build up…

- Lawrence Lessig

A world where Congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1% is a world where that tiny, tiny fr…

- Lawrence Lessig

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

- Lawrence Lessig

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

- Lawrence Lessig

I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything ti…

- Lawrence Lessig

Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet …

- Lawrence Lessig