The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.

When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.

Success is manufactured in the Mind, while Happiness is cultivated in the Soul

Keep on questioning. Keep on searching.

You are more in control of your destiny than you have ever imagined.

Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Republicans are always criticizing President Obama for using the teleprompter. Is that a big deal? After eight years of George Bush, I'm glad we have a president that can read.

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

I'm a passionate individual, and sometimes when I have strong feelings about a subject, I feel the need to express myself.

Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.

I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this mentally challenged guy!