Larry Niven Quotes

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

Larry Niven

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• I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Blessed

• People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • People
  • Up
  • Waiting

• NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Important
  • You
  • Privacy

• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Speak

• The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Down
  • Privacy

• All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Privacy
  • Essential

• I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it is? You watch these people making total fools of themselves. It's like there's absolutely no privacy.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Television
  • Privacy

• It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Up
  • May
  • Words

• Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Up
  • Information
  • Privacy

• After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Actor
  • Becoming
  • Privacy

• For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

  

  Larry Page
  • Important
  • Security
  • Privacy

• The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Government
  • Privacy

• The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Game
  • Passing
  • Integral

• I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Always
  • Now
  • Privacy

• It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

  

  John Travolta
  • Job
  • Jobs
  • Levels

• You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Work
  • Celebrity
  • Privacy

• Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Internet
  • Social Media
  • Privacy

• I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Poetry
  • Door
  • Writer

• Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

  

  William James
  • Occupation
  • Passing
  • Currents

• In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Children
  • Needs
  • Creativity

• The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

  

  M. Ward
  • Live
  • Best
  • Surprise

• With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it are diligence, discipline, ambition, and a willingness to take risks. Education and credentials are most important in government; elsewhere most skills are learned on the job.

  

  George Gilder
  • World
  • Important
  • Risk

• I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Privacy
  • Passing
  • Fad