60 Quotes by Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

When hackers have access to powerful computers that use brute force hacking, they can crack almost any password; even one user with insecure access being successfully hacked can result in a major breach.

Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to limit lies when they threaten democracy?

Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well.

Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns.

The E-government cabinet, E-health services, online voting, online pre-filled tax returns, e-mobile parking, are all examples of Estonian innovation, but far more importantly, they are examples of the transformative power of intensive and extensive use of Information Technology in the public sector.

It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know they have done so in the past.

When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not.

There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn concision in writing.