For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

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.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

I also think there is a wisdom and strength in that generation [of our parents], in terms of getting through difficult times, and there is a stoicism in the face of challenges that I greatly admire.

Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it.

Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

Choose love. Teach love. And never lose your curiosity.

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.