Bruce Schneier

"A few years ago I heard a quotation, and I am going to modify it here: If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the tec…"

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

"More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk."

"The lesson here is that it is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments."

"Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix."

"We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports."

"I mean, the computer industry promises nothing. Did you ever read a shrink-wrapped license agreement? You should read one. It basically says, if this product deliberately kills your children, and we k…"

"In China, programs have to be certified by the government in order to be used on computers there, which sounds an awful lot like the Apple store."