Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

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.

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'.

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders".

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.

Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.

Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.

After all, the reporters are the ones who get to ask the questions.

Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be. That is also a daily discipline and worth considering.

By teaching others you will learn yourself.

Things dribbled in in dribs and drabs through my 20s. But it was a struggle.

Effective therapies treat the whole body as a unit.