From Joe DeRouen's Book of Quotes...

"Information wants to be free." - Stewart Brand, EFF boardmember emeritus, founder of Whole Earth Catalog and the WELL. [Among others. No telling who really said this first, but Brand's is the earliest reference I find. The full version is: "Information wants to be free - because it is now so easy to copy and distribute casually - and information wants to be expensive - because in an Information Age, nothing is so valuable as the right information at the right time." Quite a bit more balanced than the anti-intellectual-property rallying cry "information wants to be free" is sometimes misused as.]