Security Quotes

“Privacy is not just about hiding things or keeping secret, it’s about controlling who has access to your life.”
― Timsux Wales

“In the digital world, the price of silence is often your freedom.”
― Timsux Wales

“The equilibrium between freedom and security must never sacrifice one for the other.”
― Stephane Nappo

“The company took care of me, I guess. Stuck me here, playing security on this boring-ass station.”
― Zac Thompson

“These women live the secure, safe bubble, the nine-to-five, decent bubble. But who wants sleepy bubbles when you can have the excitant of the power, the stimulus of control, even of the cruelty. All that gradual, cunning, imperceptible advancement. Don't you just love," they said, "the sudden erotic alarm?”
― Anna Burns, Milkman

“The real privacy breach is when we stop caring about our data.”
― Timsux Wales

“When we give technology too much control, we risk losing control over myself.”
― Timsux Wales

“The more we give up our freedom of privacy, the more control we hand over to those watching.”
― Timsux Wales

“The more data we give, the more they take. And the less control we have.”
― Timsux Wales

“Every piece of data shared is a footprint in the sand of our future, and some of those footprints are never erased.”
― Timsux Wales

“The paradox of privacy is that the more I seek to protect it, the more I reveal about my need for it.”
― Timsux Wales

“When you and I give technology our trust, we forget that its creators are the ones who profit from our surrender.”
― Timsux Wales

“Technology doesn’t just connect you and I to the world; it also disconnects us from the truth.”
― Timsux Wales

“The real danger of technology is not what it can do to you and I, but what it makes us do to each other.”
― Timsux Wales

“Privacy is not a luxury; it is the foundation of my dignity as a human, and without it, I'm merely a product to be sold.”
― Timsux Wales

“Data is not just information; it’s the thread that binds our identities to the hands that pull it.”
― Timsux Wales

“You and I live in a world where the price of privacy is measured in moments, and every click is a bargain.”
― Timsux Wales

“Every breach of security begins with a silent compromise of my trust.”
― Timsux Wales

“The more connected I become to technology, the more vulnerable I'm to being disconnected from myself.”
― Timsux Wales

“I trust in technology, but I trust it with a backup plan.”
― Timsux Wales

“The moment you put your life online, you're giving others the power to control it.”
― Timsux Wales

“Every new technology brings with it new risks, but the greatest risk of all is for me not to understand those risks.”
― Timsux Wales

“The cost of convenience is often paid in the currency of privacy.”
― Timsux Wales

“The enemy is not just the hacker, but the system that lets them hack in the first place.”
― Timsux Wales

“Who would sleep with the lights on 24 hours a day?”
― Steven Magee

“In the rush to embrace AI’s potential, many businesses forget one thing: it’s not just a shiny tool, it’s a complex machine that needs guarding. If you don’t budget for those hidden security risks, you’re inviting trouble to your doorstep.”
― Jason Hishmeh, The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies

“Customs and Beauty.—In justice to custom it must not be overlooked that, in the case of all those who conform to it whole-heartedly from the very start, the organs of attack and defence, both physical and intellectual, begin to waste away; i.e. these individuals gradually become more beautiful! For it is the exercise of these organs and their corresponding feelings that brings about ugliness and helps to preserve it. It is for this reason that the old baboon is uglier than the young one, and that the young female baboon most closely resembles man, and is hence the most handsome.—Let us draw from this our own conclusions as to the origin of female beauty!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“When we give technology too much control, we risk losing control over ourselves.”
― Timsux Wales

“After all, our most valuable asset is our ability to protect ourselves, our rights, and our future in an increasingly data-driven world.”
― Timsux Wales

“The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for.”
― B.F. Skinner, Walden Two