An ABC News employee:

It was embarrassing. It was demeaning. It was inappropriate.

George F. Will:

Disproportion is the common denominator of almost all of life's absurdities.

Bureaucracies try to maximize their missions. They can't help themselves.

Tyler Cowen:

My question is: what is the wife maximizing?

Decius:

Our job is to apply our well-earned cynicism and fail to follow the baby boomers off a cliff in their pursuit of some idealistic agenda.

Randall Stross:

The T.S.A. is much more talented in the theater arts than in the design of secure systems.

An exchange:

Launcelot: "We were in the nick of time. You were in great peril."

Galahad: "I don't think I was."

Launcelot: "You were. You were in terrible peril."

Galahad: "Look, let me go back in there and face the peril."

Launcelot: "No, it's too perilous."

Decius:

Someone recently told me that they wanted me to look at something in order to understand it, not hack into it. I'm a security vulnerability researcher. I don't understand the difference.

Judith Warner:

We're all losers now. There's no pleasure to it.

Tom Friedman:

I think we're entering an era where being in politics is going to be more than anything else about taking things away from people. It's going to be very, very interesting.