It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power.

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

The best investor is your customer.

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.

I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.