Bruce Schneier

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

Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.

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

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.