There’s no real separation between the real world and the Internet. What we’ve begun to see now is a militarization of that space.

Information is power. If you have information about the whole planet you have power over the whole planet. By knowing what people do in Germany they, of course, have power over them.

There’s no real separation between the real world and the Internet. What we’ve begun to see now is a militarization of that space.

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

And I love the people there. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are cool. But I'm terrified of the next generation that takes over. A benevolent dictatorship is still a dictatorship. At some point people are going to realize that Google has everything on everyone. Most of all, they can see what questions you're asking, in real time. Quite literally, they can read your mind.