“Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.”

Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

The NSA’s business is ‘information dominance,’ the use of other people’s secrets to shape events.

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don’t want your employer to know you’re job hunting. You don’t spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don’t tell trade secrets to your rivals.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form.

I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.

One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.

What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.

For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?

Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don’t you have a word to say?

I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.