Secrets are like snowflakes, nowadays—rare and hard to keep for very long.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Given the evidence at our disposal, only a fool would put any faith in the organic and the machine living harmoniously for the rest of time.

However, with the explosion of technology throughout the nineties, even the NSA was no longer able to keep up with the worldwide flow of digital information, and they were forced to let the rumors of their omniscience hide a brutal reality: no one knew where the next threat was coming from.

By making everything secure [governments] have degraded the quality of secrecy.

Only fools prefer the past!

Only fools want to be great.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living. I can't help wondering what will happen when redundant spies join the ranks of the unemployed.

Only fools get to join.

Every time you become confidential with some people, you hear of a new kind of dirty trick.

...people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser...