When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.

When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of a disaster. I was not aware of the scope of mass surveillance. I came across some legal questions when I was creating it. My superiors pushed back and were like, "Well, how are we going to deal with this data?" And I was like, "I didn't even know it existed."

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

One of the saddest and most damaging legacies of the [George W.] Bush administration is the increased assertion of the "state secrets" privilege, which kept organizations like the ACLU - which had cases of people who had actually been tortured and held in indefinite detention - from getting their day in court.

When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, "Burn it to the ground."