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Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...

The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me, or for them to be able to sell these things, that's one of the downsides, I think.

The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.