Cory Doctorow:

It may seem like SOPA is the end game in a long fight over copyright, and the Internet, and it may seem like if we defeat SOPA, we'll be well on our way to securing the freedom of PCs and networks. But this isn't about copyright, because the copyright wars are just the 0.9 beta version of the long coming war on computation. The entertainment industry were just the first belligerents in this coming century-long conflict.

The grievances that arose from unauthorized copying are trivial, when compared to the calls for action that our new computer-embroidered reality will create.

We have been fighting the mini-boss, and that means that great challenges are yet to come, but like all good level designers, fate has sent us a soft target to train ourselves on ... we may yet win the battle, and secure the ammunition we'll need for the war.

Bruce Sterling:

This is gonna get worse before it gets better, and it's gonna get worse for a long time.

Rebecca Brock:

People say to me, "Whatever it takes." I tell them, It's going to take everything.

Rebecca Solnit:

Everything changes. Sometimes you have to change it yourself.

Tony Judt:

We appear to have lost the capacity to question the present, much less offer alternatives to it.

Philip Hensher:

I wish there was some less feeble response to this constant, exhausting, draining surveillance we live under.

Robin Wauters:

You never know who's sniffing.

David Chavern:

It's nearly impossible to keep people out. The best thing you can do is have something that tells you when they get in.

The coming war on general computation