“Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the contro...” — Jonathan Zittrain Quote

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.

The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

Facebook allows outsiders to add functionality to the site but reserves the right to change that policy at any time, to charge a fee for applications, or to de-emphasize or eliminate apps that court controversy or that they simply don't like.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.