“Information wants to be free.”

“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first. I say that information doesn't deserve to be free. Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience.”

“The information you have is not the information you want. The information you want is not the information you need. The information you need is not the information you can obtain. The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay”

“Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.”

“The information age is so psychotic – without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.”

“Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a usefulfantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiencesit in a useful way.”