How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.

Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and its understanding of the great value of engaging people in a broader online dialogue.

Social media can be so addictive.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

I find myself without Internet a fair bit in the house I live in in Streatham.