Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.

While travelling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.

People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted.

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that’s already come true.

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know.

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.

So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.

[Jack Reacher] is the longest I'd ever shot anything - and let's be clear, this is my first studio feature film - so there was a huge learning curve.

There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.