"These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power."
- Edward Snowden
"Spray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that clacks and vibrates about in a closed circle forever. A reflex machine, like an ant. Repeating his las..."
- Philip K. Dick
"A slow but steady transformation of deviance has taken place in American society. It has not been a change in behavior as such, but in how behavior is defined. Deviant behaviors that were once defined..."
- Peter Conrad
"If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security."
- Bruce Schneier