Barton Gellman Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.”

“We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.”

“Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.”

“Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.”

“I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'”

“In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.”

“Most computers today have built in backup software.”

“The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.”

“When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.”

“There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.”