Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

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.

You are stronger than you know.

Rough makes us tough.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion.

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul.

The least I can give them is the best they can get from me. What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.