Benkler Yochai Quotes & Sayings

Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century. — Yochai Benkler

Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced. — Yochai Benkler

Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen. — Yochai Benkler

Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors. — Yochai Benkler

On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center. — Yochai Benkler

The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one. — James Hillman

Don't let success drive your life. Steer your life towards success . — Sailendra

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices. — Yochai Benkler

Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom. — Yochai Benkler

Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet. — Yochai Benkler

You had to account for every move, arrival or exit. In the world there was a conspiracy against improvisation. It was only permitted in jazz. — Anais Nin

We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine. — Yochai Benkler

I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it. — Yochai Benkler

The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru. — Tracy Kidder

As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives. — Yochai Benkler

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors. — Yochai Benkler

Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff. — Clive James

Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another. — Steven J. Carroll

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change. — Yochai Benkler

Your fright is in your lies but your delight is in your ties,
So better get together and fight for the right. — Aram Seriteratai

I was obviously out of my mind. It was your job to talk me down off the ledge, not hand me a cape and tell me I could fly. — Abigail Strom

I started to play noise on my cello because I felt a deep personal connection to it. I mean, I still love all the beautiful sounds of the cello as much as anybody but it's only when I play certain sounds I know that the cello really presents who I am; not my emotions but who I am as a person. — Okkyung Lee

Never cut what you can untie — Joseph Joubert

Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.' — Yochai Benkler

I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one. — Jeb Bush

Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back. — Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler likens cultural creation to blood drives: the quality of donations increases when organizers stop paying.12 "Remember, money isn't always the best motivator," Benkler said, reiterating the point during a TED Talk touching on similar themes. "If you leave a fifty dollar check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back. And if dinner isn't entirely obvious, think of sex. — Anonymous

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure. — Gerald Seymour