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

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.

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.

Denial of the Self accomplishes nothing.

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

Make your mark in the world with divine ink: love.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?

I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.