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Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'

I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.

Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.

Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap.

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

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

In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.

In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.

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

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet.

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.

Information wants to eat brie.

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

If Amazon's dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.

A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

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

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature.

To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.

While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

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

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing.

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

Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

IPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.

Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.

Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

The spirit of the Internet. This spirit is a powerful myth concocted by overzealous legal activists, and the sooner we bury it, the better.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?

If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.