We tend to assume that data is either private or public, either owned by one person or shared by many. In fact there’s more to it than that, above and beyond the upsetting reality that private data is now anything but. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind of manic sentinel in my brain. Anything in the house that might be a threat to the kids or to my wife gets terminated – food, sharp edges, poor wiring. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
The market, as we’re all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
We need to differentiate between commercial piracy – where criminal organisations produce illicit DVDs on a huge scale – and domestic, unauthorised filesharing, which may or may not be detrimental to overall sales. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
I’m usually reading too many books – in fact, I’m usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I’d be injured. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
