---
title: '<cite class="book">Code: Version 2.0</cite>'
author: Ben
type: quotes
date: 2020-07-11T10:28:35+00:00
url: /quotes/code-version-2-0/
categories:
  - Reviews

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> The Internet is wholly insensitive to geographic distinctions<footer>citation on p 57</footer> 

> Norms function through the stigma that a community imposes; markets constrain through the price that they exact; architectures constrain through the physical burdens they impose; and law constrains through the punishment it threatens.<footer>p 124</footer> 

> In some places you can choose to speak a language that only the recipient can hear (through encryption); in other places encryption is not an option.<footer>p 125</footer> 

Modified figure, pg 130

> [K]eep the elements simple, and the compounds will astound.<footer>p 145</footer> 

> It is not an offense to protect yourself rather than rely on the state&#8230;[s]elf-sufficiency is strength and going to the law a sign of weakness.<footer>p 180</footer> 

> With the relative anonymity of cyberspace and its growing size, norms do not function well there.<footer>p 236</footer> 

> Bloggers get authority from the citation others give them; that authority attracts attention.<footer>p 242&ndash;243</footer> 

> &#8230;the measure of success for legislation (as opposed to missile tracking software) is not 100 percent. The question the legislature asks is whether the law will make things better off.<footer>p 254</footer> 

All of p 300

Barlow&#8217; declaration of independence

> Ideas, or beautiful rhetoric, aren&#8217;t political action.<footer>p 305</footer> 

> &#8230;that is a difference in degree, not kind.<footer>p 324</footer>