In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

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 can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all

In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.

Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.

Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.