If you want to know the way nature works, we looked at it, carefully… that’s the way it looks! You don’t like it… go somewhere else! To another universe! Where the rules are simpler, philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy. I can’t help it! OK! If I’m going to tell you honestly what the world looks like to the human beings who have struggled as hard as they can to understand it, I can only tell you what it looks like. And I cannot make it any simpler, I’m not going to do this, I’m not going to simplify it, and I’m not going to fake it. I’m not going to tell you it’s something like a ball bearing inside a spring, it isn’t. So I’m going to tell you what it really is like, and if you don’t like it, that’s too bad.
— Richard Feynman, the QED Lectures at the University of Auckland
’Every time I write about the impossibility of effectively protecting digital files on a general-purpose computer, I get responses from people decrying the death of copyright.
“How will authors and artists get paid for their work?” they ask me.
Truth be told, I don’t know. I feel rather like the physicist who just explained relativity to a group of would-be interstellar travelers, only to be asked: “How do you expect us to get to the stars, then?”
— Richard Feynman, the QED Lectures at the University of Auckland
Reminds me of a Schneier quote that I like:
“Protecting Copyright in the Digital World”, Bruce Schneier http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0108.html#7