Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

Charles C. Mann Quotes