"Chuang-Tzu had it right. No more need be said. But such is human nature that the more succinctly we state the truth, the better we become at ignoring it. So, despite the completeness of the above homily, I'll proceed, hoping that my volume may insinuate into your worldview what Chuang-Tzu's brevity might not."
I think I like this quote -- especially the part about volume insinuating into worldview -- almost more than the quote it's referring to (http://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/T...)
Heh, and it's directly in contradiction with what I said here recently (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117233).