I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals.

One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.

It's not everyday that a whistleblower is actually willing to be identified.

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.

That's a question you'd have to present to people in the White House.

One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been.

I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.

The free software community should be supported more widely. I’m totally in solidarity with what they do.

Your calling is buried in your background and life experience

All these mirrorscarnival distortionsof selves we never were.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!

I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work.

Show respect to people who don't deserve it. Not as a reflection of their character, but of yours.

We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics.

There are hundreds of ways to make money using the Internet.

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.