It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

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.

What are you willing to lay down so you can stand up?

Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt.

I don't believe in the afterlife.