He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.