The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

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.

I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring that are contrary to the public interest.

US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.

The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.

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

The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.