Diana Kimball:

The urge to enrich the Database of Intentions is irresistible.

Sandy Pentland:

We need to make sure that the data and algorithms are continuously reviewed and vetted by a broad class of people. Think of representative democracy, forging algorithms rather than laws.

Matt Ridley:

People are pawns in a process. We ride rather than drive the innovation wave. Technology will find its inventors, rather than vice versa. Short of bumping off half the population, there is little that we can do to stop it from happening, and even that might not work.

Evgeny Morozov:

The new welfare state built by Silicon Valley is not built to advance the welfare of citizens -- it's built to freeride on the activities of citizens in order to advance the welfare of corporations. The citizens might, of course, get relatively useful services but those pale in comparison to the benefits harvested by technology companies, which, in addition to the lucrative procurement contracts with governments and cities, also get to rip the data generated by the users.

Terry Gross:

Whatever you need me to be, I'll be that.