Fred Wilson:

Privacy is pretty black and white. It either is or it isn't. And trying to have it both ways won't work.

Graeme Wood:

There are times when I would love to cease existing as a person in the eyes of others, and to swim through crowds unnoticed, the way women do in their steel-blue burqas in Herat. Far from being an experience that no one should have, it seems one that everyone should have the choice to have.

Mark Twain:

It is desire to be in the swim that makes political parties.

Kate Ray:

Groups aren't necessarily smart or powerful, but they could be. It isn't enough to get a bunch of people together in a room or on a website with a great vision of what they could accomplish. The group's potential hinges on its structure.

Steve Bellovin:

Architecture matters a lot, and in subtle ways.

Clay Shirky:

Nothing will work, but everything might.

An exchange with Mark Fletcher:

"Share something."

I fear I spend too much time on the Internet as a crutch to avoid thinking about the crushing sameness of each and every day as well as the black hollowness of my soul. There, I said it. Are you happy now?

John Givings:

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

Errol Morris:

Often there has been an incredible tension between what people want to hear, and the stories that I have presented. I remain unapologetic.

Michael Haneke:

Audiences are having mainstream cinema and television touch on only the surface of things, and they get irritated when confronted by a more exacting gaze into the depths of our existence.

James Miller:

The cyber threat has outpaced our ability to defend against it.

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