Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

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

Information wants to eat brie.

There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly.

The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.