From a brief post at Priceonomics, a correction to the oft-quoted Stewart Brand phrase “Information wants to be free”:

“But that’s not what the quote said. Or rather, that’s only half the quote. Here’s the full quote said by Stewart Brand in 1984:

‘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.”

In a later book, Brand shortened the statement to: ‘Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive…That tension will not go away.'”