Evgeny Morozov Quotes

If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.

Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara.

Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.

This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.

If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.

If Amazon’s dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.

We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing.