Moglen Quotes

#1. It was like trying to have a conversation with a distracted and very soggy scone. Every time he pushed in one direction the earl either oozed or crumbled.

Gail Carriger

#2. If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.

Eben Moglen

#3. The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age.

Eben Moglen

#4. As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere.

Eben Moglen

#5. There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way ... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The Government has no particular right to prevent you from speaking in a technical manner even if it is inconvenient for them to understand.

Eben Moglen

#6. I think she is marvelous. She is untouched by politics, unmarred and untainted. She is absolutely, brilliantly humble. Honest, hardworking. And it would be my honor that she accept to be my wife. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a country to govern and a woman to woo.

Katy Evans

#7. Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it.

Eben Moglen

#8. My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

Ivan Reitman

#9. The modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India for its vehicle; Alexander upon the elephant.

Victor Hugo

#10. The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?

Eben Moglen

#11. You may think you are your best friend, but at times you you may be your worst enemy

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#12. Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.

Eben Moglen

#13. He'd told me the world could be the most lovely place you could imagine, so long as your imagination was fueled by love.

Sebastien De Castell