Yochai Benkler Quotes
- Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back.
- Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for…
- Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
- As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply…
- Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the…
- We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us,…
- On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade…
- I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to…
- Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.
- Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.