Larry Wall Quotes

Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

When we talk with policymakers about Facebook, it's about how users have control over information.

Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

Washington is a perfect realization of the upper-bracket dream of a white-collar universe, where economies run on the information juggling of the ‘creative class’ and where manufacturing is something done by filthy brutes in far-off lands.

Our values are that we do think that people have a right to privacy. And that our customers are not our products.

In today's information-driven economy, business and scientific talent constrains growth.

In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.

Data is the most valuable asset in the world.

I eventually think its going to be the consumer who controls his own data.

Privacy and security are the ultimate shared responsibility, and everyone - including governments, companies, and citizens - have an important role to play.

If we want protection, we need to start thinking of our data as our property, because, if no one has noticed, property is held up and protected legally.

With the evolution of information technology, there have emerged new questions, for example, of data and privacy.

The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK, there might be a law on the books that governs how these corporations can handle our data.'

Information wants to be free.

If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs.

Hillary Clinton is using a private server for - where classified information go by. This is a - this is a serious administration?

The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from those of other products.

Information wants to be useful.

Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today's richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.

I don’t think you’re supposed to be able to get at that information,” said Leslie. “Don’t look,” said Goldstein, peering over Charles’s shoulder. “We don’t know anything about illegal hacking.” He whistled cheerily.

Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.