Dr. Amy Zegart, CISAC co-director and senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution:

Getting to see and experience how USSTRATCOM operates first-hand was "an eye opener."

Paul Goodman:

Too precise a preconception of what is wanted discourages creativity more than it channels it ... This is especially true when, as at present, so much of the preconception of what is wanted comes from desperate political anxiety in emergencies. Solutions that emerge from such an attitude rarely strike out on new paths, but rather repeat traditional thinking with new gimmicks; they tend to compound the problem.

Barack Obama:

I ... hereby declare a national emergency ...

AFP:

French Intelligence services will have the right to place cameras and recording devices in private dwellings and install "keylogger" devices that record every key stroke on a targeted computer in real time.

Nathan Freed Wessler:

The time to end the charade of concealment is now.

Lauren French and Kate Tummareo:

The surveillance issue has kindled friendships among lawmakers who rarely see eye-to-eye.

danah boyd:

Our inability to be brash is costing our society in all sorts of ways.

Sam Altman:

Don't be afraid to do something slightly reckless.

This American Life:

Daniel Kish is blind, but he can navigate the world by clicking with his tongue. This gives him so much information about what's around him, he does all sorts of things most blind people don't. Most famously, he rides a bike.

Rafil Kroll-Zaidi:

Blind people who do not echolocate do not succumb to the illusion that small boxes weighing the same as large boxes feel heavier, but the blind who echolocate and the non-blind do.

Joan Didion:

Self-deception remains the most difficult deception.

Michael Sorkin:

The three buildings now or nearly done [in lower Manhattan] are clad in identically proportioned mirror glazing ... Cowed by the challenge of rising to the symbolic occasion, the architects have produced buildings of neither originality nor weight. Instead, their structures seek, in fleeting reflections of sky and circumstance, to stealthily disappear. But, enormous, they cannot.