Jer Thorp:

Making data a verb exposes to us the power imbalances that have kept our collective endeavours drastically off-kilter. Grammatically speaking, data-as-verb would present a number of possibilities for subject/object combinations:

I data you. You data me. We data you. You data us. They data me. They data us. We data them.

a senior intelligence official:

They [the telephone companies] want to be compelled, and they want to be paid for the service.

Iain Thomson:

As a premium service, Microsoft will offer data from Redmond's security team who monitor black-hat forums, and will alert IT managers if any of their users' identities have been put up for sale.

Jeff Atwood:

A ransomware culture ... does not feel very far off ...

Ashiq JA:

Recently, the Chicago police department agreed to pay a $500 ransom in February 2015. "Because the backups were also infected, the option was to pay the hacker and get the files unencrypted," says Calvin Harden, an IT vendor working with the police department to overcome crypto-ransomware.

John Carlin, head of the Justice Department's National Security Division:

We are seeing nation-state action -- from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea -- target your companies and what you have, day in and day out, to use your information against you.

Fran Howarth:

Already spending $250 million per year on digital security, JPMorgan Chase has pledged to double that spending over the next year as a direct result of the security breach and has increased the number of security professionals it employs to 1,000.

Paul Goodman:

It is amazing to me that the scientists and technologists involved have not spoken more insistently for international cooperation instead of a puerile race. But I have heard some say that except for this chauvinist competition, Congress would not vote any money at all.

Dr. Amy Zegart, CISAC co-director and senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution:

Getting to see and experience how USSTRATCOM operates first-hand was "an eye opener."

Paul Goodman:

Too precise a preconception of what is wanted discourages creativity more than it channels it ... This is especially true when, as at present, so much of the preconception of what is wanted comes from desperate political anxiety in emergencies. Solutions that emerge from such an attitude rarely strike out on new paths, but rather repeat traditional thinking with new gimmicks; they tend to compound the problem.

Barack Obama:

I ... hereby declare a national emergency ...

AFP:

French Intelligence services will have the right to place cameras and recording devices in private dwellings and install "keylogger" devices that record every key stroke on a targeted computer in real time.

Nathan Freed Wessler:

The time to end the charade of concealment is now.

Lauren French and Kate Tummareo:

The surveillance issue has kindled friendships among lawmakers who rarely see eye-to-eye.

danah boyd:

Our inability to be brash is costing our society in all sorts of ways.

Sam Altman:

Don't be afraid to do something slightly reckless.

This American Life:

Daniel Kish is blind, but he can navigate the world by clicking with his tongue. This gives him so much information about what's around him, he does all sorts of things most blind people don't. Most famously, he rides a bike.

Rafil Kroll-Zaidi:

Blind people who do not echolocate do not succumb to the illusion that small boxes weighing the same as large boxes feel heavier, but the blind who echolocate and the non-blind do.

Joan Didion:

Self-deception remains the most difficult deception.

Michael Sorkin:

The three buildings now or nearly done [in lower Manhattan] are clad in identically proportioned mirror glazing ... Cowed by the challenge of rising to the symbolic occasion, the architects have produced buildings of neither originality nor weight. Instead, their structures seek, in fleeting reflections of sky and circumstance, to stealthily disappear. But, enormous, they cannot.

Rob Horning:

Pinterest users can simply add desired goods to a board and instantaneously indulge the fantasy that some part of the site's user base will see it and draw the appropriate conclusions. The gesture immediately circulates. This fantasy need not climax with a purchase or seek appropriate occasions to display it. And it need not be terminated by the disillusionment that comes with actual ownership, when an affectively inert thing takes its place amid the mounting slag pile of one's emotionally spent objects -- objects that no longer say anything about you and have become merely useful at best, objects that sit there taunting you with your discarded ideas of who you were trying to be, and for whom, and when.

On Pinterest, there are apparently no ... physical stakes, no contexts that are fixed at a point of purchase and then outgrown; one can keep on pinning and never know the disillusionment of possession.

Evgeny Morozov:

Gone are the burdens of ownership!

Ed Cumming:

Distraction is a kind of obesity of the mind ...

Sara Germano:

In retail there are signs that the fashion of fitness may be driving sales more than actual fitness.

David Brooks:

Data-driven politics is built on a philosophy you might call Impersonalism. This is the belief that what matters in politics is the reaction of populations and not the idiosyncratic judgment, moral character or creativity of individuals.

Sterling Hayden:

Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?

David Brooks:

If you live for external achievement, years pass and the deepest parts of you go unexplored and unstructured. You lack a moral vocabulary. It is easy to slip into a self-satisfied moral mediocrity. You grade yourself on a forgiving curve. You figure as long as you are not obviously hurting anybody and people seem to like you, you must be O.K. But you live with an unconscious boredom, separated from the deepest meaning of life and the highest moral joys. Gradually, a humiliating gap opens between your actual self and your desired self, between you and those incandescent souls you sometimes meet.

Scott Berkun:

The polite lie is what most people want, and that's fine, but when you say enough polite lies you soon lie to yourself too.

Joan Didion:

Self-deception remains the most difficult deception.

Paul Goodman:

The recent history of technology has consisted largely of a desperate effort to remedy situations caused by previous over-application of technology.

Daniel Dennett:

One out of six Americans is already a None; by 2050, the figure will be one out of four, according to a new Pew Research Center study.

Jonathan D. Rockoff and Ed Silverman:

Since 2008, branded-drug prices have increased 127%, compared with an 11% rise in the consumer price index.

Anand Giridharadas:

As of 2006, there were more payday lenders in Ohio than outlets of McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's combined.

Amir Mizroch:

Facebook last week said its main social network increased to 1.44 billion monthly users, up from 1.39 billion in the 2014 fourth quarter. The company added that it now has 4 billion video streams every day.

Ron Amadeo:

The scale of YouTube gets more breathtaking every year. It has a billion users in 61 languages, and 12 days of video are uploaded to the site every minute -- that's almost 50 years of video every day.

Pew, via John McDuling:

In the US, 39 of the top 50 news websites now get more traffic from mobile devices than from desktop (and laptop) computers.

Christopher Ross:

0 Apple products [are] used in the Gates household. They don't plan on getting Apple Watches either.

EIA:

In 2013, the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer was 10,908 kilowatthours (kWh), an average of 909 kWh per month. Louisiana had the highest annual consumption at 15,270 kWh, and Hawaii had the lowest at 6,176 kWh.

Annalee Newitz:

The kids of tomorrow won't freak out over terabytes of storage. They'll freak out over kilowatt-hours.

Alex Peysakhovich:

The things we can measure are never exactly what we care about.

Richard Holbrooke:

Only with hindsight can one look back and see that the smartest course may not have been the right one.

David Goldberg:

Sometimes the things you decide not to do are actually the biggest things to do in your career.

Jan Chipchase:

The money you turn down defines you as much as the work you take on.

Richard Holbrooke:

Only with hindsight can one look back and see that the smartest course may not have been the right one.

Javier Solana:

In economic terms, cyber crime is already comparable in size to drug trafficking, and it is highly internationalized.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

Wherever the law is, crime can be found.

Zeljka Zorz:

What's worrying, says Marc-Etienne Leveille, is that the Mumblehard operators have been active for many years without disruption.

Seth Geftic:

Signature-based tools like SIEM are failing. Pervasive visibility and deep investigation is "what SIEM was meant to be."

Bruce Schneier:

As a nation, we need to prioritize defense over offense.

Tony Bradley:

Stop playing defense.

Maor Franco:

Let's provide our security analysts with the "License to Hunt."

Nate Freier, research professor at the U.S. Army War College:

It really is every man for himself.

a senior intelligence official, who requested anonymity:

They [the telephone companies] want to be compelled, and they want to be paid for the service.

a senior sales and marketing representative, who requested anonymity:

Money for me, databases for you.

DoD:

The US requires strong intelligence, forensics, and indications and warning capabilities to reduce anonymity in cyberspace and increase confidence in attribution.

Wim Remes:

With the attention of legislators drawn to all things cyber our industry too will see regulatory capture emerge.

Jeff Atwood:

A ransomware culture ... does not feel very far off ...

NYT Editorial Board:

Get used to the protections of your civil liberties being minimally viable.

Nate Freier, research professor at the U.S. Army War College:

It really is every man for himself.

Phil Muncaster:

According to Arbor, there were 25 DDoS attacks worldwide larger than 100Gbps during the first quarter. According to NSFOCUS, 90% of attacks were actually less than half an hour in duration. It argued that such attacks were primarily used as a distraction to occupy the IT team while hackers could steal data and deploy malware.

Elise Viebeck:

Customers that employ FireEye's Multi-Vector Virtual Execution engine and Dynamic Threat Intelligence platform are now protected from lawsuits or claims alleging that the products failed to prevent an act of cyberterrorism.

Douglasville Deputy Chief Gary E. Sparks:

It's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Robert Graham:

There is no way to have a backdoor for United States communications while opposing backdoors elsewhere.

Jeffrey Goldberg:

Just because something would be useful for law enforcement doesn't mean that they should have it.

Matt Blaze:

[The state of computer security] is an emerging national crisis.

Mubin Shaikh:

There's a perception among counterterrorism agents that they need to be producing something -- they're under pressure from above, and they start to feel like they're better safe than sorry by locking troubled people up if there's no other real option out there.

Robert Brenner, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Cyber Defense Services for K2 Intelligence:

As threats become more complex and invasive it is critical that companies take a holistic approach to cyber defense -- securing their systems, training their people and identifying the threats beyond their walls. K2 Intelligence is providing clients with solutions and resources to battle on all those fronts.

Fran Howarth:

Already spending $250 million per year on digital security, JPMorgan Chase has pledged to double that spending over the next year ...

Jennifer Baker:

The much-trumpeted new EU Security Strategy is nothing of the sort. Central to its plans to tackle cyber-terrorism is a plan to "enhance dialogue with the IT industry".

Wim Remes:

With the attention of legislators drawn to all things cyber our industry too will see regulatory capture emerge.

An official familiar with the situation:

It is clear that absolutely uncontrollable reactions have begun.

Jonathan Weisman:

The push for reform is the strongest demonstration yet of a decade-long shift from a singular focus on national security at the expense of civil liberties to a new balance ...

Alastair Humphreys:

Dream Big.
Then think small.
Start small.
But do start.

Richard Barnes, Firefox Security Lead:

Today we are announcing our intent to phase out non-secure HTTP.

Rick Robinson:

The decision to provide encryption for all federal Web traffic also embodies the new normal for data security. This is a recognition that all data traffic is subject to attack threats at all times and thus needs to be protected at all times.

SLOMO:

I said, "How does a strapping young man like me get to be an old codger like you?" And he looked at me and said, "Do what you want to!" And at first I was thinking, this old man just made more sense to me than anything I'd ever heard in my life. It's just, do what you want to.

Sam Altman:

Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

Barack Obama:

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

Justine Musk:

The world does not care what you want or deserve.

Marc Zwillinger:

The truth is, law enforcement ... is living in the golden age of surveillance.

Wes Felter:

We're getting into interest-only adjustable-rate subprime technical debt.

John Oliver:

No one cares. [Americans] don't give a shit.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah):

In many ways we've never been brighter.

Robert Reich:

As I travel around America, I'm struck by how utterly powerless most people feel.

Diana Kimball:

All good relationships play with power dynamics.

Marcy Wheeler:

By going to the providers, they intend to do chaining off of information that doesn't qualify under the narrow definition of session-identifying information.

Ashley Carman:

When Rep. Blake Farenthold asked the panel to raise their hands if they believed a technically secure backdoor could be built, no one raised a hand, not even Amy Hess or Daniel Conley.

Roger Scruton:

It feels good to pretend, and when we all join in, it is almost as though we were not pretending at all.