1. “Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.”
2. “Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.”
3. “If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public – the authorities show up and arrest everyone.”
4. “As economic life relies ore and more on the Internet, the potential for mall bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.”
5. “I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.”
6. “Smart technology are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.”
7. “Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.”
8. “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.”
9. “Dictators aren’t stupid or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.”
10. “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.”
11. “This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.”
12. “Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization an it may also become one of its major victims.”
13. “The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.”
14. “Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting the hooked to such loans isn’t.”
15. Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector”.”
16. “Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.”
17. “Simply getting a country’s population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.”
18. “Google’s vision is tools that will do things for you.”
19. “Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.”
20. “I don’t think love or technology itself breeds change.”
21. “Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.”
22. “You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.”
23. “While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.”
24. “A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.”
25. “The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.”
