鈥淓verything you do in front of the computer can be seen, and everything you say can be recorded.鈥�
Graham Cluley of antivirus company Sophos on Rbot-GR, a virus that turns on webcams (Press release, 23 August)
鈥淭he results achieved in various fields of science and technology are considered and defended by many as a priori acceptable. In this way, one ends up expecting that what is technically possible is in itself also ethically good.鈥�
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Pope John Paul II on cloning research (Associated Press, 22 August)
鈥淭hey come in balaclavas. They come in the middle of the night. They bang, they shout, they throw bricks through your windows, bricks through your doors.鈥�
A resident of a Staffordshire village targeted by animal rights extremists because it is home to a family that breeds guinea pigs for medical research (The Independent, London, 21 August)
鈥淲e noticed a bear sleeping on the common lawn and wondered what was going on until we discovered that there were a lot of beer cans lying around.鈥�
Lisa Broxson, a worker at the Baker Lake Resort near Seattle, on a bear that passed out after drinking 36 cans of local brew (Reuters, 19 August)
鈥淚n the age of global warming, opposition to nuclear power is a cop-out rather than a rational or responsible position.鈥�
Former UK energy minister Brian Wilson (The Observer, London, 22 August)