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"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back."
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"Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterintelligence at U.S. weapons labs?"
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"If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing."
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"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."
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"Your shield must surpass your weaponry."
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"Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact."
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"Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected."
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"Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k)."
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"Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here."
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"We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals."
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"The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon."
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"The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits."
Iraq

"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software."
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"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back."
Security

"We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be."
Innovation

"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft."
Capitalism

"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."
Wisdom

"I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."
Communication

"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."
Wisdom

"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
Technology

"DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience."
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