We talk a lot about operational control, and that's having a better understanding of who's coming in and who's leaving, what the threat really is. We're never really going to get that.

Cairo has flights into JFK, and they're going to open another one at Dulles... As long as we have flights coming directly to the United States, I think it's putting Americans at risk.

I would argue it should be a policy to defeat ISIS where they are, where they exist and prevent them from coming into the United States.

Without - you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it.

I like technology. I mean, I have surround at home so I can listen to the Lakers.

I think everyone should have social media - all young people, at least.

Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music, cosplay, and maker culture - that we tend to imagine its superficial aspects are all that define it.

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.