Data is not intelligence.

The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

FBI wants to know everything about you, and you're not supposed to know anything about them.

The spooks are all cowards. Sunlight is the solution to these things.

The NSA's vision statement is: keep the problem going so the money keeps flowing.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

Rainbows are said to be beautiful!Rainbows are said to be colourful!Rainbows may possibly be magical!But, I have never seen a rainbow appearing in the sky!

Bit literacy means letting the bits go

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

I was tired of an outlaw's life.

I was really fixated when I was a child. Again my mother was just talking to me about this, about how I would how try to get details exactly right. I guess I was always very persistent.

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.