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

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

The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.