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.

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.

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.

Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

The Celtic fans are very special and the club and players can be very proud of them. They are the best I have ever heard.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

I'm concerned that young people, far too often, abdicate their responsibilities of learning and adapting and give that over to people who may not always have their best interests at heart.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

Once you start to listen to your voice, you start to feel the power in that.