You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.

[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

There is a technical solution to every political problem...

I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more airtime. We cannot be effective without a mass movement, and the American people today are too comfortable to adapt to a mass movement.

I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.

Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral moment for physicists. Mass surveillance is the same moment for computer scientists, when they realize that the things they produce can be used to harm a tremendous number of people.