“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.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.

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.

If you’ve had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it.

I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I’d become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia.

You are bound to want a player at some stage who is represented by this guy and you will have to try to work around the personality of the agent.

In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.

Agent Mom is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love… develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans.

Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as Agent Mom.