[Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to us because of the network links between them, but because of the software packages, because of the hardware devices that comprise it. The same router that's deployed in the United States is deployed in China.

It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that.

There's no saving me.

What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five years of your life, so when you come to their attention, they can know everything about you. I'm not down with that, but [Bill] Binney was trying to create something like that.

Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.

In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.