I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.

In any election, it's important that the public perceives that the election is held fairly.

What we did is important because we proved that virtually all of the wireless networks used by companies and hospitals are completely open and offer no protection for the data on them.

If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision.

You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.

I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other people.

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.

So, you know, if, if I wanted to get up and just play golf one day, I would just get up and play golf. If I wanted to go to Vegas, I would just get up and go to Vegas.

I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

There's nothing worse than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a painting that's been left out in a rainstorm.

She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind.