Technology & Innovation: Privacy & Cybersecurity Quotes

Explore curated quotes on privacy, cybersecurity, and digital trust from technologists, policymakers, and thinkers. These insights address encryption, data protection, risk management, and the human factors that shape secure innovation. Use them to spark conversation, inform policy debates, or inspire responsible product design. From vigilance against emerging threats to the ethics of surveillance and consent, the collection balances caution with optimism, encouraging resilience, transparency, and user-first thinking across Technology & Innovation.

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"Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite"

Marlon Brando, Actor

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Small: Tim Berners-Lee

"We have an illusion of security, we don't have security"

Isaac Yeffet

"When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else"

David Brin, Author

Small: David Brin

"I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

Small: Whitfield Diffie

"You already have zero privacy - get over it"

Scott McNealy, Businessman

Small: Scott McNealy

"Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"The Internet is a great information tool, and can be a place where kids learn, but we must remember that when kids are online, they are in public"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"I agree that there are things that should be kept secret"

Daniel Ellsberg, Celebrity

"You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment"

Peter Camejo, Businessman

Small: Peter Camejo

"My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet"

Steven Tyler, Musician

"Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent"

Arthur C. Nielsen, Businessman

Small: Arthur C. Nielsen

"The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security"

Louis Freeh, Lawyer

"Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive"

Kevin Mitnick, Celebrity

Small: Kevin Mitnick

"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

Small: Marshall McLuhan

"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back"

Bill Gates, Businessman

Small: Bill Gates

"The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Small: Mark Zuckerberg

"Celebrity damages private life"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Small: Tim Berners-Lee

"I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

Small: Hillary Clinton

"I believe in a zone of privacy"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

Small: Hillary Clinton

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months"

Clifford Stoll, Author

"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

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"The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

Small: Justin Timberlake

"Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

Small: Jaron Lanier

"Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation"

Marc Maron, Entertainer

"From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed"

Daniel J. Bernstein, Mathematician

"We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

Small: Condoleezza Rice

"The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far"

Daniel Ellsberg, Celebrity

"At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years"

Wietse Venema, Scientist

"Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't"

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'"

Bruce Scheneier, Writer

"We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers"

Bill McCollum, Politician

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