This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.

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.

if you are to begin at the beginning of the end, do not wait till the end before you begin. Time and timing is an essential accoutrement in the journey of life.

Sometimes you have to forgive the process, knowing that the outcome is for the best.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

My main thing is music; it's what I do.