19 Quotes by William Binney

Data is not intelligence.

The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control.

The NSA’s vision statement is: keep the problem going so the money keeps flowing.

The spooks are all cowards. Sunlight is the solution to these things.

FBI wants to know everything about you, and you’re not supposed to know anything about them.

You've got the NSA doing all this collecting of material on all of its citizens - that's what the SS, the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB, and the NKVD did.

When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people.

We're not getting a good return on investment on all that money we're pumping into the intelligence community. One of the first things I would suggest is that if there's an attack and they fail to stop it or to alert us before it happens, that we ought to start cutting their budget, and for every attack they should lose ten percent of their budget.

Trailblazer was the NSA's attempt to catch up with the digital age. The problem is, Trailblazer didn't do anything. As far as I know, it didn't produce anything for roughly a little over $4 billion.