Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.

The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.

If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.

When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.

Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?”“You whacked me on the head with a ball!”“You deserved it.

I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.

I tend to prioritize emotional realism above the known laws of time and space, and when you do that, it's inevitable that strange things happen. Which can be quite enjoyable, I think.

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.

Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

You know, it's never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.