American Quotes

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.

Actors make less than you think.

Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.

I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

Generally I'm against regulation.

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet.

If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation.

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.