I tell people: if it's in the news, don't worry about it, because by definition, news is something that almost never happens.

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'.

Why?Because I am a sovereign being and I do what I desire to do as I feel led.That is all.

Her love is rare but she'll keep you wild.

The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.

They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me.

the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_.

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

"Well, I'm supposed to be crazy, right?" [...] "And there isn't much I wouldn't do for you. The stupider, the better."

This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

Gods have many faces.