Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive... That tension will not go away.

Stewart Brand at the first Hackers Conference, 1984
Transcript:
"On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."