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

The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.

You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

Information wants to eat brie.

I know I’m not supposed to say this, but I love you.

When we see and appreciate the beauty in others, we tend to absorb it and make it ours.

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I never use that word, retire.

Women, by nature, want to be dominated.

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

There was a period where our child's birth was getting really close, and we still had nothing. We were dangerously close to calling him Untitled Baby Project.

Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.