Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?

Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser - was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad.

The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public resources on understanding the 'why' - i.e., exploring the reasons as to why terrorists become terrorists - one can focus on predicting the 'when' so that a timely intervention could be made.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.