Natasha Singer:

In the study, titled "Unique in the Shopping Mall: On the Reidentifiability of Credit Card Metadata," a group of data scientists analyzed credit card transactions made by 1.1 million people in 10,000 stores over a three-month period. The data set contained details including the date of each transaction, amount charged and name of the store. Although the information had been "anonymized" by removing personal details like names and account numbers, the uniqueness of people's behavior made it easy to single them out.

Chris Cillizza:

There is simply no hiding things anymore.

Lisa Monaco:

We want this flow of information to go both ways.

Ursula K. Le Guin:

If you listen, what do you hear?

Andy Greenberg:

When asked if their vehicles monitored the CAN bus -- the network of digitally-controlled components in the car -- for malicious activity, half of the 16 automakers failed to respond to the question, many claiming that the answer was "confidential."

Cory Bennett:

It's a proven model, Lisa Monaco said.

PCLOB:

The Administration has not yet developed, as the Board recommended, a methodology for gauging the value of its counterterrorism programs.

Ursula K. Le Guin:

The first step is often the most important, and Jung says that the first step is to turn around and follow your own shadow.

Richard Hamming:

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. But to yourself try to be honest.