Bill McKibben:

Can you figure out which way history wants to head (since no politician can really fight the current) and suggest how we might surf that wave?

Here's my answer: we're moving, if we're lucky, from the world of few and big to the world of small and many. We'll either head there purposefully or we'll be dragged kicking, but we've reached one of those moments when tides reverse.

Brendan Borrell:

There are only so many fish in the sea.

KFC:

The battle ahead with the Internet Water Army will be long and hard.

W.J. Hennigan:

The Federal Aviation Administration plans to propose new rules for the use of small drones in January, a first step toward clearing the way for police departments, farmers and others to employ the technology.

Robert Scoble:

The freaky line is about to move. Are you ready?

Maria Russo:

Forgetting is over, but no one remembers that much either.

Benjamin Wittes:

Franklin was complaining of the choice facing the legislature between being able to make funds available for defense and maintaining its right of self-government -- and he was criticizing the governor for suggesting that it should be willing to give up the latter to ensure the former.

In short, Franklin was not describing a tension between government power and individual liberty. He was describing, rather, effective self-government in the service of security as the very liberty it would be contemptible to trade. Notwithstanding the way the quotation has come down to us, Franklin saw the liberty and security interests of Pennsylvanians as aligned.

Stephen King:

For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. ... A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.