If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.

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 only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied. The remedy is a lot of science, well applied.

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

Best seller material, and she didn’t have to write a single word.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

A world between my fingers.

The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.

How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.

If you yell about one woman, you're not a misogynist. If I yell about Michelle Bachman, that doesn't make me a misogynist. If I compare all women to Michelle Bachman, then I'm a misogynist.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man.