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

"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

Tim Berners-Lee

"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

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

John Perry Barlow, Writer

John Perry Barlow

"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

Kevin Mitnick

"There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life"

Aaliyah, Musician

Aaliyah

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

Louis Freeh, Lawyer

"As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

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

David Brin, Author

David Brin

"Celebrity damages private life"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

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

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

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

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"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

Jaron Lanier

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

Daniel Ellsberg, Celebrity

"Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

"Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people"

Terry Fox, Athlete

"Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business"

Erykah Badu, Musician

Erykah Badu

"The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

Michael Hutchence

"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

"You already have zero privacy - get over it"

Scott McNealy, Businessman

Scott McNealy

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

Bill McCollum, Politician

"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

Whitfield Diffie

"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

Peter Camejo

"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

Marshall McLuhan

"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

Mark Zuckerberg

"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

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

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

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"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

"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

"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

Condoleezza Rice

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

Isaac Yeffet

"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

"People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"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

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

Daniel J. Bernstein, Mathematician

"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance"

Julius Rosenberg, Criminal

"Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on"

Nathan Deal, Politician

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