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Gijs de Vries

"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."

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Donna Grant

"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."

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Donna Grant

"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."

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Donna Grant

"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."

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Donna Grant

"Quite amazing, isn't it, Mister Lipwig?' he said cheerfully through the smoke. 'Though isn't it a pity that they can only run on rails? I can't imagine what the world would be like if everyone had their own steam locomotive. Abominable."

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Donna Grant

"When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice."

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Donna Grant

"The day internet stops functioning forever, so many works will get missing forever!"

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Donna Grant

"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."

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Donna Grant

"In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing."

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Donna Grant

"I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric."

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Donna Grant

"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."

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Gijs de Vries
"Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential."

People

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Gijs de Vries
"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."

Intelligence

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Gijs de Vries
"Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home."

Home

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Gijs de Vries
"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."

Technology

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Gijs de Vries
"The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more."

Politics

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Gijs de Vries
"I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism."

Politics

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Gijs de Vries
"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."

Fear

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Gijs de Vries
"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."

Information

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Gijs de Vries
"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."

Information

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Gijs de Vries
"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."

War

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