John Brockman:

Those of us involved in communicating ideas need to re-think the Internet. Many of the people that desperately need to know, don't even know that they don't know.

Evgeny Morozov:

All these efforts … are driven by a pervasive and dangerous ideology that I call "solutionism": an intellectual pathology that recognizes problems as problems based on just one criterion: whether they are "solvable" with a nice and clean technological solution at our disposal. Thus, forgetting and inconsistency become "problems" simply because we have the tools to get rid of them -- and not because we've weighed all the philosophical pros and cons.

William H. Simon:

People have strong tendencies to drift with the status quo rather than opt for change, to succumb unreflectively to rhetoric and imagery, and to excessively discount the future.

Amy Zegart:

This is a policy debate …

Tony Judt:

The question is not going to be, Will there be an activist state? The question is going to be, What kind of an activist state?

Bruce Schneier:

The solutions have to be political.

Julian Borger:

Dilma Rousseff called on the UN oversee a new global legal system to govern the internet.

Donald Rumsfeld:

Simply because a problem is shown to exist doesn't necessarily follow that there is a solution.