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

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'.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

Greatness must be measured by the transfer of success to future generations

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

I work hard and fight easy.

Activity that perishes, that is not productive of the eternal, of the lasting, is of very little use.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.

My goal in a couple of years is to try to build a successful fashion house like Armani or Versace. I want that more than anything.