Dan Geer:

Realpolitik says that sentient opponents have always been a fact of life, but never before have they been location independent and never before have they been able to recruit mercenaries who will work for free.

Mark Buchanan:

What we gain from free services at first, we more than pay for through long-term damage to our economic lives --  as well as to democratic freedom.

Merle Travis / Tennessee Ernie Ford / George S. Davis:

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt

Samantha Power:

There are great benefits to connectedness, but we haven't wrapped our minds around the costs.

Clay Johnson:

Your clicks have consequences.

Omner Barajas:

There is undeniable evidence that our dependence on interconnected technology is defeating our ability to secure it.

Mason, Waters, Wright, and Gilmour:

And you run and run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Li Po:

We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.