I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

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.

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

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.

Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart.

Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.