Yochai Benkler famous quotes

Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back.
-- Yochai Benkler

#Dinner #Increase #Checks

Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom.
-- Yochai Benkler

#Imperfection #Dimensions

Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
-- Yochai Benkler

#Government #Needs #Surveillance

Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.
-- Yochai Benkler

#Israel #Years #Bags

On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.
-- Yochai Benkler

#New York #Children #World

Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.
-- Yochai Benkler

#Movement #Analyzing #Weathermen

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
-- Yochai Benkler

#Organization #Ideas #Practice

We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
-- Yochai Benkler

#Fighting #Blow #September

Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

Zac Efron would make us feel guilty for eating big dinners. He'd say, 'Do you really want to eat those carbs?' It was like, 'Thanks a lot!'

Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.

The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.

How do you make a dimmed light bright again? Remove the interference. How do you increase health in a dis-eased person? The same way!

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values.