You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's about citizens talking with each other about the issues which concern them. We've lost a great deal of that in the age of the mass media.

There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's not  -  like a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance; the audience does participate.

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.