There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost.

As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And if we do not find a way to provide a basic income for people who have no work, or no meaningful work, we’re going to have social unrest that could get people killed. When we have increasing production - year after year after year - some of that needs to be reinvested in society.

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

I've got more than enough for my needs [for social life in Moscow], let's put it that way.

I've been watching The Wire recently.

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.