Bruce Schneier Quotes

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

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• I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Grateful

• Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Science
  • Political
  • Professional

• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Become
  • Task

• As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Education
  • Like
  • Follow

• So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Work
  • Want
  • Style

• I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I'll find it one day.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Day
  • Caring

• A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • People
  • Look
  • Variety

• When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • Bad
  • Curiosity

• Indian-ness, love for your country, is complicated. For every person, there is a different way that you show respect for your country... my mother-in-law will say karmayogi is the way to go - do your work.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Work
  • Country
  • Way

• Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Charity

• Naked I came into this world, naked I shall go out of it. And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Good

• 'There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. ... There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.'

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Soul

• Life will not make allowance for you, but it will pay you what you earn.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Life

• Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

  

  James Hillman
  • Path

• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Life
  • Habit

• 'The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman' is a reminder that people across the world are rebelling against norms and forging new paths for the most marginalized people in their own communities.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • World

• I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • World

• Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.

  

  Andrew Davidson
  • Vanity
  • Deceiver
  • Motivator

• Sacrificing your relationship for your career sounds noble and romantic from the outside, but the reality is that it can create a pattern of self-destruction that will ultimately burn you out on the career you've worked so hard to build. It's a trap and, for some, an easy way out of having to maintain relationships under stress.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Career
  • Reality
  • Relationship

• All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.

  

  Jonas Armstrong
  • Friends

• I want to look forward.

  

  Eric Cantona

• I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

  

  Bruce Schneier