Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Security is a process, not a product.

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Don't make the mistake of thinking you're Facebook's customer, you're not - you're the product.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

Your beliefs frame your thoughts and actions. If you change your beliefs, you change your reality.

I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.