The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.