Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.

When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

Sometimes the good memories are just as painful as the bad ones.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

No," she cried, "no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.