Noam Cohen's friend:

Privacy is serious. It is serious the moment the data gets collected, not the moment it is released.

David Simon:

We asked for this.

Gail Collins:

Do you remember how enthusiastic people were about having a president who once taught constitutional law?

The Economist on Obama, in November 2008:

He has to start deciding whom to disappoint.

Rory Stewart:

Americans are particularly unwilling to believe that problems are insoluble.

Roberto G. Quercia:

The problem with this conversation is that it's like discussing the future of shipbuilding from the deck of the Titanic.

Bruce Schneier, from 2009:

Just as we look back at the beginning of the previous century and shake our heads at how people could ignore the pollution they caused, future generations will look back at us - living in the early decades of the information age - and judge our solutions to the proliferation of data.

We must, all of us together, start discussing this major societal change and what it means. And we must work out a way to create a future that our grandchildren will be proud of.