WNYT-TV:

A former FBI agent recently trained all Waste Management drivers, helpers and technicians in Rensselaer and Albany Counties to act as a mobile community watch. Trucks are now armed with a cell phone, camera and incident reports so they'll have accurate information for police and, possibly, prosecutors.

Decius:

One must assume that all garbage is monitored by the state. Anything less would be a pre-9/11 mentality.

Janet Napolitano:

In a sense, this harkens back to when we drew on the tradition of civil defense and preparedness that predated today's concerns.

Chris Dixon:

The carriers are thinking about pushing the edge beyond recommendations to see how they can start turning their records into revenue.

Ken Doctor:

It's a box that, once you look inside, you can't not look.

Jaron Lanier:

A sufficiently copious flood of data creates an illusion of omniscience, and that illusion can make you stupid.

G.L. as Johnson at The Economist:

There's something athletic, soulful even, about the thought of physically diving into a spreadsheet, kicking around in its dusky deep columns, paddling lazily through the surf of numbers, digging for hidden gems among its pivot tables, and coming up for air gasping but ecstatic, with the decimal points cascading down your forehead. It could be a subtle signal to colleagues of the effort you are about to make as you hold your breath and plunge into the numbers. Or maybe it's nothing more than an attempt to romanticise to yourself what is otherwise a soul-deadening activity.

One money manager, on Goldman Sachs:

It's like the Mob who picks up the garbage. You pay their fees, because you need your garbage picked up.

North American Aerospace Defense Command:

Whatever it was, "there is no indication of any threat to our nation."