209 Quotes by Bruce Schneier

I used to say that Google knows more about what I’m thinking of than my wife does. But that doesn’t go far enough. Google knows more about what I’m thinking of than I do, because Google remembers all of it perfectly and forever.

When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year’s salary to ‘go pursue a dream.’ If you’re stupid, you panic and get another job. If you’re smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.

We kill people based on metadata.

A 2010 investigation found that 1,931 different corporations are working on intelligence, counterterrorism, or homeland security inside the US.

There’s an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

The only reason we know this story is that Levison ran his own company. He had no corporate masters. He had no shareholders. He was able to destroy his own business for moral reasons.

But when it comes to governments, unhappy as I am to say it, I would rather be eavesdropped on by the US government than by many other regimes.

By 2010, we as a species were creating more data per day than we did from the beginning of time until 2003.

Opting out just isn’t a viable choice for most of us, most of the time; it violates what have become very real norms of contemporary life.