13 Quotes by Richard A. Clarke

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What’s more, you deserve to be hacked.

Democracies don’t prepare well for things that have never happened before.

Yesterday is rarely too early but tomorrow is frequently too late.

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

We can literally unplug a country from the Internet. We ought to think about unplugging them.

Many dogs will give a greeting grin much like a human smile.

I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the probability of success is and exactly what we’re going to do and what the limits are.

Silicon Valley quickly realized there was far more money to be made by adapting their vision to the wider world than trying to force the wider world to adopt the vision of an internet where free speech reigned supreme.

In 1957, a flu virus that had not been seen for sixty-five years was discovered in Asia. Because of its long dormancy, most of the world had no immunity. In two waves of deaths, nearly 1.5 million people were killed, including seventy thousand Americans.