Lawrence Lessig:

In the academy, there is no truth without a statistical regression. So few will risk reputation or promotion by speculating beyond the facts that SPSS will whisper.

But in the middle of a crisis, certainty is an expensive luxury, and one we can't afford anymore. We need to tackle the problems that explain most of our problems first, and soon.

Jean-Luc Godard:

It's not where you take things from -- it's where you take them to.

Vannevar Bush:

The process of tying two items together is the important thing.

Dan Geer:

This is perhaps our last fundamental tradeoff before the Singularity occurs: Do we, as a society, want the comfort and convenience of increasingly technologic, invisible digital integration enough to pay for those benefits with the liberties that must be given up to be protected from the downsides of that integration?

It is your choice and responsibility whether to demand protections and conveniences and services that can only be done with pervasive data. It is your choice and responsibility whether to fear only fear itself or to fear the absence of fear. It is your choice and responsibility to be part of the problem or part of the solution.

Decius:

It's important to understand that it isn't Congress that must change -- it is us.