"I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes."
—Evgeny Morozov
"The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying."
—Evgeny Morozov
"[People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses which will keep the same people in their rooms downloading pornography."
—Evgeny Morozov
"The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize."
—Evgeny Morozov
"Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap."
—Evgeny Morozov
"I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'"
—Evgeny Morozov
"We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer."
—Evgeny Morozov
"Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice."
—Evgeny Morozov
"In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict."
—Evgeny Morozov
"Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever."
—Evgeny Morozov
“The most effective system of Internet control is not the one that has the most sophisticated and draconian system of censorship, but the one that has no need for censorship whatsoever.”
—Evgeny Morozov
“We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing.”
—Evgeny Morozov
“If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.”
—Evgeny Morozov