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.

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not." -Beatrix Whittaker

This is what fun is like, " said Rain, almost to herself.

If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year. ... Today should always be our most wonderful day.

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.

I have been in love already, but I don’t think I have ever really loved somebody. Love is a very rare and beautiful thing, but it can also be bitter if the other one doesn’t love you back.

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.