Neil Richards, a professor at the Washington University School of Law:

The technologies we have now are enabling all sorts of new uses.

Cameron Evans:

In the past, we would have never had this data, but now that it's electronic, we can correlate data in a way that we never ever had the opportunity to do before.

Mark Buchanan:

Computation alone made it possible to keep track of all the details needed to manufacture the deception.

Lawrence Lessig:

Are there things that will make our kids look back on us and say, 'Seriously?'

Adam Caudill:

There's a tough balance between proving that it's possible and making it easy for people to actually do it. There's an ethical dilemma there. We want to make sure we're on the right side of it.

A buddy of a Texan tinkerer named Gene Robinson:

I can't tell you exactly what I've been working on. But it worked.

NYT Editorial Board, 2008:

Officials seem to think urgency to act absolves them from considering the longer-term implications.

Anthony Lane:

The problem is not the ignorance. The problem is the bliss.