Alexis Madrigal:

We could stick to trying to win the Facebook lottery, building audience in the spreadsheets of record. But we're going our own way, making most of it up as we go along, and we hope you're excited to help us create something that's worth caring about.

Paul Jaskunas:

All questions, H.R. has advised, should relate to three core concerns: Can the applicant do the work? Will the applicant fit in? Will the applicant love the job?

I was surprised to learn that love is now considered essential to the employment relationship.

Mark Manson:

In my life, I have given a fuck about many people and many things. I have also not given a fuck about many people and many things. And those fucks I have not given have made all the difference.

Barack Obama:

I think I own my data ...

Evgeny Morozov:

Verizon ... joins many other champions of the "sharing economy" in insisting that "people today are embracing a sharing society" ... Gone are the burdens of ownership!

Kim Zetter:

Obama did not elaborate on what kinds of privacy and civil liberties protections would be put in place for the information-sharing program.

Alistair Gray:

Cyber attacks now present such a danger to global business that governments should step in to cover the risks, the head of the largest Lloyd's of London insurer has warned.

David Sanger:

Kaspersky Lab says it has seen evidence of $300 million in theft through clients, and believes the total could be triple that. The majority of the targets were in Russia, but many were in Japan, the United States and Europe. The silence around the investigation appears motivated in part by the reluctance of banks to concede that their systems were so easily penetrated, and in part by the fact that the attacks appear to be continuing.

Joseph M. Demarest Jr., assistant director of the F.B.I.'s cyberdivision:

We're fighting Ph.D.s on the other side of the world.

Barack Obama:

There's no scenario in which we don't want really strong encryption.

Gwen Harkness:

New York-based Senior Health Partners has notified 2,700 members of a breach after a registered nurse employed by its business associates had a laptop and mobile phone stolen. The laptop was encrypted, but the encryption key was in the laptop bag and also stolen.

The Horror, The Horror:

Owner: Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse!

Homer: [worried] Ooooh, that's bad.

Owner: But it comes with a free Frogurt!

Homer: [relieved] That's good.

Owner: The Frogurt is also cursed.

Homer: [worried] That's bad.

Patricia Princehouse's friend:

It takes half a second for a baby to throw up all over your sweater. It takes hours to get it clean.

Eric Grosse:

Our business depends on trust. If you lose it, it takes years to regain.

Jennifer Granick:

When I talk to people in D.C., they really do approach the cybersecurity issue with a default belief that government has something to offer and that government's going to be helping. And when you talk to people out here in Silicon Valley, they approach it with the default belief that the government has no idea what they're doing when it comes to computer security and can't be trusted.

Chris Strohm:

Law enforcement agencies have been trying to convince the companies to make the data available for legitimate investigations.

Francois Hollande:

The big operators, and we know who they are, can no longer close their eyes if they are considered accomplices of what they host.

Robert Graham:

This War on Hackers is likely to be no more effective than the War on Drugs.

Tom Abate:

When asked what individuals could do to protect themselves, Parisa Tabriz, who leads the Chrome security team, recommended strong passwords.

John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology:

New attack vectors are opening faster than we can identify them.

Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

The theme of the language is to increase penalties in a number of places without really clarifying the vagueness or uncertainty that has been problematic in prosecutions.

Shawn Tuma:

Practically speaking, whether the penalties are lowered or increased, they will probably not have a significant deterrent effect that would have any measurable impact on cybersecurity.

Practically speaking, unless the government can get a lot better at definitively attributing these cyber attacks to ascertainable people or organizations, these proposed changes will have very little real world impact on cybersecurity.

Practically speaking, when the bad actors who are conducting these cyber attacks against the US and US companies are sponsored by foreign states -- or are the foreign states themselves -- these proposed changes will have very little real world impact on cybersecurity.

Andy Baio:

As it turns out, organizing the world's information isn't always profitable.

Elizabeth Holmes:

Hundreds of bloggers earn tens of thousands of dollars a year from affiliate relationships, people familiar with the industry say. A few make that much in a month.

Andrew Sullivan:

I want to let you know I've decided to stop blogging in the near future.

Tyler Cowen:

The "problem" is that the web gives people what they want. Those who survive as bloggers will be those who do not care too much about what other people want.

Matt Webb:

Let's be clear... this is all about me: What I get out of this is that somehow, by typing, four unrelated things that have caught my eye sometimes show signs of coherence. I get glimpses of the gestalt. So that's why I type.

JoAnn Wypijewski:

James Baldwin does not say that systems of power are unimportant. He insists that liberation is also a mandate on individuality: how one separates oneself from the "habits of thought [that] reinforce and sustain the habits of power" -- in essence, how one comes into his or her humanity.

Ursula K. Le Guin:

The man is all that is civilized -- learned, kindly, idealistic, decent. The shadow is all that gets suppressed in the process of becoming a decent, civilized adult. The shadow is the man's thwarted selfishness, his unadmitted desires, the swear-words he never spoke, the murders he didn't commit. The shadow is the dark side of his soul, the unadmitted, the inadmissible. And what Hans Christian Andersen is saying is that this monster is an integral part of the man and cannot be denied -- not if the man wants to enter the House of Poetry.

How do you get there? How do you find your own private entrance to the collective unconscious?

Lisa Monaco:

I worry that malicious attacks ... will increasingly become the norm unless we adapt quickly and take a comprehensive approach.

Herb Lin:

The relationship has been poisoned, and it's not going to recover anytime soon.

Jelani Cobb:

We increasingly glance at one another through a veil of suspicion, doubt and fear.

The problem is not technology. It is, as it always was, us.

Chelsea Handler:

I need help with my electronics. It's the biggest disaster. I don't even understand what apps are on my phone.

Taylor Swift:

I have to stop myself from thinking about how many aspects of technology I don't understand.

Jelani Cobb:

The problem is not technology. It is, as it always was, us.

Donovan Hohn:

Like many modern wonders, Chicago's canal solved the problem it was engineered to solve -- the city's sewage crisis -- but it did so by sending the consequences downstream, to the Mississippi Valley and, in unanticipated ways, to all of us. In hindsight, it looks less like a triumph of the heroic age of civil engineering than like a prologue to the chastening age we live in now, the epoch geologists have proposed calling the Anthropocene, the age of the sixth extinction.

DCMA spokesman David Wray:

A [CPT] from [JFHQ-DODIN] is working with DCMA to enhance network security.

Julian Sanchez:

If firewalls made of acronyms could keep malware out, we'd be in fantastic shape.

Eli Dourado and Andrea Castillo:

OMB reports that the federal government spent $78.8 billion on FISMA cybersecurity investments from FY 2006 to FY 2013.

[But] the number of federal cybersecurity failures has increased every year since 2006.

The number of reported federal cybersecurity incidents increased by an astounding 1,012% over the selected years, from 5,503 in 2006 to 61,214 in 2013.

Lucian Constantin:

The vulnerability is actually a fundamental design flaw in Group Policy that remained undiscovered for at least a decade.

According to Microsoft, it wasn't feasible to build the fix for Windows Server 2003.

There are still millions of systems running Windows Server 2003 worldwide and analysts predict that migrating them to newer OS versions will be difficult, because an entire business software ecosystem has been built around the aging OS.

Cormac McCarthy, "Blood Meridian":

At dusk they halted and built a fire and roasted the deer. The night was much enclosed about them and there were no stars. To the north they could see other fires that burned red and sullen along the invisible ridges. They ate and moved on, leaving the fire on the ground behind them, and as they rode up into the mountains this fire seemed to become altered of its location, now here, now there, drawing away, or shifting unaccountably along the flank of their movement. Like some ignis fatuus belated upon the road behind them which all could see and of which none spoke. For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.

The Economist:

There is a distinct correlation between privilege and pressure. In part, this is a conundrum of wealth: though people may be earning more money to spend, they are not simultaneously earning more time to spend it in. This makes time -- that frustratingly finite, unrenewable resource -- feel more precious.

Christopher Mims:

In 1979 the average worker put in 1,687 hours a year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, and by 2007 that number was 1,868. The net difference, 181 hours a year, represents more than a month of extra work every year.

RadioShack was once a cultural phenomenon -- a place with a unique geographic but also psychological reach, a hub of one of the many leisure-time activities Americans once enjoyed to a degree it's hard to fathom now, in a time when apps allow those of us with more money than time to outsource even the minutest details of our lives.

How did we arrive at a culture of disposable everything? The simplest answer is that we no longer have time for anything else.

Harry McCracken:

The payment process -- which involved a clerk writing down your name and address even if you were 9 years old and had come in to buy a single D-cell battery -- made every purchase into a joyless time sink.

Danielle Paquette:

The lesson is clear: Chase the proverbial carrot while you're young. Save your money while it's coming in. Or ask for that raise -- sooner, rather than later.

Molly Young:

I have never chased a woman down the street to ask where her bag was from and found out that it was Rebecca Minkoff.

Jeff Williams, chief technology officer at Contrast Security:

Are they going to pay market salaries, not government salaries for this expertise? They are going to need an army of experts and they're not going to be able to find them.

Lizzie Widdecombe:

"What kind of price range are we talking about?" Stephen Bradley asked.

"Ballpark, for this role you're talking a hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars an hour."

Nadav Zafrir:

Mandatory conscription can be an economic burden; it can also be an economic boon.

Lisa Monaco:

Cybersecurity is and will remain a defining challenge of the 21st century. There is simply no putting this genie back in the bottle.

Damian Paletta and Danny Yadron:

The creation of the new office suggests a recognition by the Obama administration that the status quo isn't working ...

Many companies claim the government doesn't share enough intelligence with them ...

T. C. Sottek:

At minimum, the data dump shows a serious ignorance of the volume of sensitive information in the records and a carelessness about their disclosure. And while a Florida bureaucrat may ultimately be to blame, it's not a good look for Jeb Bush -- someone who called himself the first "eGovernor," and a man who may want to sit in the White House.

Spencer Ackerman:

A report last month from the former senator Tom Coburn claimed it was "unclear" if the $700m DHS spends on cybersecurity to aid "the private sector in preventing, mitigating, or recovering from cybersecurity incidents are providing significant value or are worth the tax dollars spent on them."

Dennis Fisher:

This is not a group that is likely to smack its collective forehead at the release of a senator's report and say, We'll get right on that for you.

Ursula K. Le Guin:

"Lucifer" means the one who carries the light.

True Detectives:

Martin Hart: Do you wonder ever if you're a bad man?

Rustin Cohle: No. I don't wonder, Marty. The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door.

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.