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.

The scale of compromise, including the loss of sensitive and unclassified data, is staggering. We're talking about terabytes of data, equivalent to multiple libraries of Congress.

Ellis:

After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

Mark Foulon:

It has become clear that Internet access in itself is a vulnerability that we cannot mitigate.

Paul Flatters:

A lot of things that are written about IT are negative. But we are puzzled by the fact that people are attached to their IT as well -- how do you square that circle?

Bruce Sterling:

Poor folk love their cellphones!

Jenna Wortham:

Some say talking on the phone is intrusive and time-consuming, while others seem to have no patience for talking to just one person at a time.

Seth Godin:

My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Then go after the windmills.