Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

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.

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

It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.

Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So once upon a time a land in the shore...

I no longer belong to your ways. My religion is love. Every heart is my church.

Tacos are the perfect food.

I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - if you believe that these things work, you will feel better.