The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

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 never learn/improve if you are too proud to accept criticism.

While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality.

95% of economics is common sense

In time take time while time doth last for time Is no time when time is past.

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

I don't want to be a great actress. I want to be a sexy movie star.

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

If people don't believe the source, then we aren't going to change their minds. We just won't.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do.