Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility.

Sometimes, we think faster than what we write.

Gut feelings are often the first inkling you receive that something is not quite right in any situation.

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

All I could think about was him, and how much I wanted this, and how incredibly lucky I was to get it, and how tight I was going to hold onto it.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.