There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

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.

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

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.

War of words. We are influenced by the western media. But is what we hear the truth or just PR campaigns for governments?

I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!

Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Israel is very much endangering.

A cup of tea would restore my normality.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.