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Information wants to eat brie.
Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.
Google’s vision is tools that will do things for you.
I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.
I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.
Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.
Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.
This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.
For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.
You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.
Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.
The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.
Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.
The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.
There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.
Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.
I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?
I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.
Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.
Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.
WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.
WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.
Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.
If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.
Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.
The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.
Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.
Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.
Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.
Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.
Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap.
In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.
While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.
Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?
A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.
I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature.
In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'
The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.
In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.
To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.
iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.
If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.
It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.
It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet.
To me, the success of the cyberactivists in Tunisia is actually very interesting, because many of them explicitly rejected any support from Washington.