Freeman Dyson:

Grab every opportunity to take responsibility and do things for which you are unqualified.

Francis Fukuyama:

It is extremely easy to build a drone now that can do not just surveillance but can carry rather large payloads. If you want to see how large some of these planes get, check out this video of a model Airbus A380. I don't have to spell out the implications of this. I want to have my drone before the government makes them illegal.

Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Mark Hanis:

If human rights organizations can spy on evil, they should.

Tom Junod:

It's amazing whom we're arresting as terrorists these days.

Pico Iyer:

It's only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

NASA, via Decius:

Behold one of the more detailed images of the Earth yet created.