Etay Zwick:

At the best of times, Wall Street provides white noise amidst entrepreneurs' and workers' attempts to actualize their ambitions and projects. We are still learning what happens at the worst of times.

Joel Kotkin:

Britain's welfare state now accounts for nearly one-third of government spending.

Jaron Lanier:

Web 2.0 is a formula to kill the middle class and undo centuries of social progress.

Jeffrey Rosen:

It's often said that we live in a permissive era, one with infinite second chances. But the truth is that for a great many people, the permanent memory bank of the Web increasingly means there are no second chances -- no opportunities to escape a scarlet letter in your digital past. Now the worst thing you've done is often the first thing everyone knows about you.

Christopher Ahlberg, CEO at Recorded Future:

We can assemble actual real-time dossiers on people.

Nathaniel Persily:

There used to be a theory that gerrymandering was self-regulating. But it's not self-regulating anymore. We have become very good at predicting how people are going to vote. The software is too good, and the partisanship is too strong.

Richard Betts:

In times of change, people wonder more consciously about how the world works.

Virginia Postrel:

In 2008, Americans owned an average of 92 items of clothing, not counting underwear, bras and pajamas.

By contrast, consider a middle-class worker's wardrobe during the Great Depression. Instead of roughly 90 items, it contained fewer than 15.

Kira Cochrane:

Last year, a poll for tissue manufacturer SCA found that 41% of British men and 33% of women don't shower every day, with 12% of people only having a proper wash once or twice a week.

Steven Frank:

Old Worlders have to come to grips with the fact that a lot of things we are used to are going away. Maybe not for a while, but they are.

George Packer:

I see one of the ugliest political periods in my lifetime, which has seen a few.

Martin Wolf:

A lost decade seems quite likely.

Tim Henderson:

After watching their parents -- typically both of them -- work ever longer hours in an increasingly around-the-clock and competitive world, 20-somethings wonder whether their 20s will be the best time of their lives or will be spent doggedly climbing the career ladder.

Tom Friedman:

We're entering an era where being in politics is going to be more than anything else about taking things away from people. It's going to be very, very interesting.

Tony Travers:

London is becoming a First World core surrounded by what seems to be going from a second to a Third World population.

Paul Volcker:

Today's concerns may soon become tomorrow's existential crises.

Paul Krugman:

We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression.

Richard Florida:

We have come to an economic juncture where we must re-examine even our most cherished beliefs.

Jeffrey Carr:

I don't like hype, but hype sells.

Jason Baptiste:

If you spent the money on an original iPod in 2001 on Apple stock ($499), you would have $14,513.78 today.

Nicholas Kristof:

CEOs of the largest American companies earned an average of 42 times as much as the average worker in 1980, but 531 times as much in 2001.

Josh Kraushaar:

Money chases momentum -- not the other way around.

Decius:

The thing that sucks about freedom of speech is that rich people can afford more speech than you can.

D'Angelo Barksdale:

It ain't about right. It's about money.

Molly Young:

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that the first kind gain momentum from boredom and the second kind don't.

Tara:

Life is about wanting to have, and then getting, and then having, and then, like, wanting more.

Charles P. Pierce:

Truth is what moves the needle. Fact is what sells.

Sarah Silverman:

You're very free if you don't love money.

Decius:

Is our curse the endless pursuit of a happiness which can never be attained?

John Tierney:

When people were asked to anticipate how much extra money and time they would have in the future, they realistically assumed that money would be tight, but they expected free time to magically materialize.

Zadie Smith:

If it's not for money and it's not for girls -- what is it for? With Zuckerberg we have a real American mystery. Maybe it's not mysterious and he's just playing the long game, holding out: not a billion dollars but a hundred billion dollars. Or is it possible he just loves programming?

Nicholas Kristof:

The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976.

Eric Schmidt:

You get a billion people doing something, there's lots of ways to make money. Absolutely, trust me. We'll get lots of money for it.

Ali Dhux:

A man tries hard to help you find your lost camels.
He works more tirelessly than even you,
But in truth he does not want you to find them, ever.

Mark Fletcher:

I fear I spend too much time on the Internet as a crutch to avoid thinking about the crushing sameness of each and every day as well as the black hollowness of my soul.

Andre Agassi:

Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

David Gelernter:

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

Hal Varian:

Data are widely available; what is scarce is the ability to extract wisdom from them.

Jeffrey Rosen:

We are only beginning to understand the costs of an age in which so much of what we say, and of what others say about us, goes into our permanent -- and public -- digital files. The fact that the Internet never seems to forget is threatening, at an almost existential level, our ability to control our identities; to preserve the option of reinventing ourselves and starting anew; to overcome our checkered pasts.

Graeme Wood:

There are times when I would love to cease existing as a person in the eyes of others, and to swim through crowds unnoticed, the way women do in their steel-blue burqas in Herat. Far from being an experience that no one should have, it seems one that everyone should have the choice to have.

Mark Twain:

In my early manhood and in middle-life, I used to vex myself with reforms, every now and then. And I never had occasion to regret these divergencies, for whether the resulting deprivations were long or short, the rewarding pleasures which I got out of the vice when I returned to it, always paid me for all that it cost.

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Martin Marks:

I am busy now;
The Internet has stolen
So much precious time.

Whit Diffie:

The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.

Jeffrey Carr:

I don't like hype, but hype sells.

Eric Butler:

Double-click on someone, and you're instantly logged in as them.

Representative Greg Walden of Oregon, a vice chairman of the Republican Congressional committee:

It's a battle to the end.

Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee:

We're duking it out everywhere.

Adam Brandon:

It's like the tea party movement's been hacked.

Peter Baker:

The first refuge of any politician in trouble is that it's a communication problem, not a policy problem. If only I explained what I was doing better, the people would be more supportive. Which roughly translates to If only you people paid attention, you wouldn't be kicking me upside the head.

Dick Durbin:

The American people have a limited attention span. Once you convince them there's a problem, they want a solution.

Adam Levine:

Modern war is about metrics (and Powerpoint).

Donald Rumsfeld:

Simply because a problem is shown to exist doesn't necessarily follow that there is a solution.

Mark Foulon:

It has become clear that Internet access in itself is a vulnerability that we cannot mitigate. We have tried incremental steps and they have proven insufficient.

Robert Darnton:

Thomas Jefferson formulated it succinctly: "Knowledge is the common property of mankind."

We have the technical means to make Jefferson's dream come true, but do we have the will?

Martin Wolf:

Of the need there can be no doubt. Of the will, the doubts are many.

Christopher Calabrese:

If you can identify any individual at a distance and without their knowledge, you literally allow the physical tracking of a person anywhere there's a camera and access to the Internet.

Anil Dash:

We're all celebrities now, in a sense. Everything that we say or do is on the record.

Drake Bennett:

When asked what they most regret in their recent past, subjects tend to describe actions, but over the long run, people regret the things they didn't do, whether it's not going to night school or never learning to play the piano.

Susan Orlean:

For some reason, even people who did fairly well in high school biology ask me whether you need a rooster to have eggs, which is like asking whether a woman needs a boyfriend in order to ovulate.

Joel Stein:

There is so much you can't know about your spouse when you get married, like that one day she will want to eat her placenta.

Joe Klein:

There is something profoundly diseased about a society that idolizes its ignoramuses and disdains its experts. It is a society that no longer takes itself seriously.

Lawrence Lessig:

Somehow, as a culture, we, or maybe just we who are old, have forgotten how to deal with stuff we can't believe.

Drake Bennett:

America is disappointed. But it turns out that human beings are easy to disappoint. Research suggests that even when people know that someone has nothing but bad options to choose from, they still blame the decider for a bad outcome.

Johann Hari:

The Cranfield School of Management studied 170 companies who had used management consultants, and it discovered just 36 per cent of them were happy with the outcome -- while two thirds judged them to be useless or harmful.

Marlo Stanfield:

You want it to be one way. But it's the other way.

Jay Rosen:

Ninety percent of everything is crap, but that's nothing novel. There's just more everything now.

Bruce Feiler:

Go. You'd be surprised at what you get just by showing up.

Steven Johnson:

Chance favors the connected mind.

James X. Dempsey:

They basically want to turn back the clock and make Internet services function the way that the telephone system used to function.

@AlanDeSmet:

Sure, @lessig is charismatic and smart, but then he calls for widespread cannibalism and baby punching.

Steve Bellovin:

It's a disaster waiting to happen.

Joel Jewitt:

We didn't do it on purpose.

Amit Singhal:

It's what you want.

Eric Schmidt:

Think of it as augmented humanity.

John Gruber:

Here's my theory: the problem with Google is that Eric Schmidt is creepy.

Casey Affleck:

There was no wink.

Evercookie:

Simply think of it as cookies that just won't go away.

Roger Dingledine:

Counterintuitively, even if a tool has many users, as long as nobody talks about it much it tends not to get blocked.

John Barry and Evan Thomas:

The secretary of defense does his own laundry, shopping, and cooking, and waters the flowers outside his house.

Homer:

Can't someone else do it?

Barack Obama:

I'm done doing this!

Jack Schafer:

The numbskullery continues.

Karen Nussbaum:

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David Clark:

Don't forget about forgetting.

Keith Alexander:

The Internet is fragile.

Kellan Elliott-McCrea:

Don't let your design make promises you can't keep.

Vannevar Bush:

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

Newspaper advertisement:

Did you work at Sellafield in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s?

Were you by chance in the job of disposing of radioactive material?

If so, the owners of Britain's nuclear waste dump would very much like to hear from you: they want you to tell them what you dumped -- and where you put it.

James Bridle:

Everything should have a history button.

Rebecca Brock:

You can't even remember what I'm trying to forget.

James Wray:

Holly Madison unveils her new line of candy necklaces at the Sugar Factory in Las Vegas on May 21, 2010.

Ally:

You could also call it a lanyard instead if necklace makes you feel just a little too feminine.

Dagmar:

The goddamn lanyards.

I can't be the only person I know who is trying to find a decent string lanyard without going to the cell phone store to paying fifteen bucks for 38cm of shoestring and some plastic bits.

Brad Sturdivant:

I know many of you were already planning on doing some sort of TWILIGHT SAGA marathon when TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE opens up on June 30th. Well, it looks like AMC Theaters is thinking the same thing ... For $30, you get a ticket to TWILIGHT, TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON and a midnight showing of TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE, plus $10 in movie cash, plus a limited Twilight lanyard.

Decius:

A fashion statement? What does it say? I'm enough of a computer geek to want to wear a computer peripheral around my neck, but I'm not enough of a computer geek to have figured out how to use the internet for this instead?

David Dowling:

There is nothing cool about having a lanyard.

A ZDNet reader:

He occasionally uses the SharePoint lanyard they gave him instead of the Ubuntu lanyard for his keys, but feels dirty afterwards.

Fred Wilson:

Privacy is pretty black and white. It either is or it isn't. And trying to have it both ways won't work.

Graeme Wood:

There are times when I would love to cease existing as a person in the eyes of others, and to swim through crowds unnoticed, the way women do in their steel-blue burqas in Herat. Far from being an experience that no one should have, it seems one that everyone should have the choice to have.

Mark Twain:

It is desire to be in the swim that makes political parties.

Kate Ray:

Groups aren't necessarily smart or powerful, but they could be. It isn't enough to get a bunch of people together in a room or on a website with a great vision of what they could accomplish. The group's potential hinges on its structure.

Steve Bellovin:

Architecture matters a lot, and in subtle ways.

Clay Shirky:

Nothing will work, but everything might.

An exchange with Mark Fletcher:

"Share something."

I fear I spend too much time on the Internet as a crutch to avoid thinking about the crushing sameness of each and every day as well as the black hollowness of my soul. There, I said it. Are you happy now?

John Givings:

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

Errol Morris:

Often there has been an incredible tension between what people want to hear, and the stories that I have presented. I remain unapologetic.

Michael Haneke:

Audiences are having mainstream cinema and television touch on only the surface of things, and they get irritated when confronted by a more exacting gaze into the depths of our existence.

James Miller:

The cyber threat has outpaced our ability to defend against it.

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