Jonathan Zittrain Quotes

The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.

If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.

When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.