Digital Barbarism Quotes

“to cite Montaigne, “Nature always gives us happier laws than those we give ourselves.”125”
― Mark Helprin, Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto – A Rational Attack on Creative Commons and Defense of Copyright

“follow Churchill’s admonition, “I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you,”123”
― Mark Helprin, Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto – A Rational Attack on Creative Commons and Defense of Copyright

“Humanity requires for its understanding and governance not science but art,”
― Mark Helprin, Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto – A Rational Attack on Creative Commons and Defense of Copyright

“We have been so enthusiastic in our welcome as to be obsequious—to machines.”
― Mark Helprin, Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto – A Rational Attack on Creative Commons and Defense of Copyright

“The Parthenon is a pleasing building, and Mozart’s Fifth Piano Concerto a pleasing work, because each makes use of proportions, relations, and variations that go beyond subjective preference, education, and culture into the realm of universal appeal conditioned by universal human requirements and constraints. A life lived with these understood, even if vaguely, will have the grace that a life lived unaware of them will lack.”
― Mark Helprin, Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto – A Rational Attack on Creative Commons and Defense of Copyright