--- title: 'Code: Version 2.0' author: Ben type: quotes date: 2020-07-11T10:28:35+00:00 url: /quotes/code-version-2-0/ categories: - Reviews --- > The Internet is wholly insensitive to geographic distinctions > 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. > 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. Modified figure, pg 130 > [K]eep the elements simple, and the compounds will astound. > It is not an offense to protect yourself rather than rely on the state…[s]elf-sufficiency is strength and going to the law a sign of weakness. > With the relative anonymity of cyberspace and its growing size, norms do not function well there. > Bloggers get authority from the citation others give them; that authority attracts attention. > …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. All of p 300 Barlow’ declaration of independence > Ideas, or beautiful rhetoric, aren’t political action. > …that is a difference in degree, not kind.