Even if it were, you run into the same problem with international commerce: if you create a device that is famous for compromised security and it has an American back door, nobody is gonna buy it.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

It has been argued that man is not an animal, but I tell you, the animal in man is what makes man an animal.

You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.