Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility.

We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.

Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives.

Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

If you can't be direct, why be?

You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

I believe in letting karma do its thing. What comes around goes around.