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Quotes About Privacy

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~ Robert A. Heinlein
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom . . . and the other twenty percent isn't very important.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
A credit card is a leash around your neck. In the world of credit cards a person has no privacy…or at best protects her privacy only with great effort and much chicanery. Besides that, do you ever know what the computer network is doing when you poke your card into a slot? I don't. I feel much safer with cash. I've never heard of anyone who had much luck arguing with a computer.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
As for the tank, not only is it unAmerican and probably subversive to eat without watching stereo but also the racket from it would interfere even with a directional mike aimed at us from a distance . . .
~ Robert A. Heinlein
A credit card is a leash around your neck. In the world of credit cards a person has no privacy…
~ Robert A. Heinlein
A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You butt into other people's business.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Citizens are urged to tolerate cheerfully any minor inconvenience this may cause them; your right of privacy will be respected in every way possible; your right of free movement may be interrupted temporarily, but full economic restitution will be made.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We lived here a while. No annex then, had to have an armed guard just to pee.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
He even let himself be vaccinated again rather than go back to the I Spy and dig out the piece of paper that showed he had been vaccinated on arrival Earthside a few weeks earlier.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Little Tony was sitting on a park bench munching on one candy bar after another. After the 6th candy bar a man on the bench across from him said Son you know eating all that candy isn't good for you. It will give you acne rot your teeth and make you fat. Little Tony replied My grandfather lived to be 107 years old. The man asked Did you grandfather eat 6 candy bars at a time Little Tony answered No he minded his own fucking business.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
In practice, of course, this cannot regress to mathematical infinity, but only to the point where every citizen is spying on every other citizen or until the funding runs out.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
For this has become so crooked and perverse a nation that your precious bodily fluids are no longer your own, and not even your bladder or bloodstream are private. There is no place where they may not watch.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
We don't ask other teachers about their sexual habits.
~ Robert B. Parker
I called Hawk on his cell phone. "Where are you?" I said. "Not your business," he said. "What are you doing." "Very not your business," he said. "Oh that," I said.
~ Robert B. Parker
He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed.
~ Robert Cormier
he had never felt left out: it was his choice. To be a witness, to observe, to let the events be recorded within himself on some personal film in some secret compartment no one knew about, except him.
~ Robert Cormier
where I keep my computer. I opened
~ Robert Crais
When Pike reached home, he stretched in the parking lot to cool, then peeled off his sweatshirt, deactivated the alarms, and let himself in. His condo was austere and functional with little in the way of decoration. Dining room set off the kitchen; couch, chair, and coffee table in the living room; a flat-screen television for sports and news. A black stone meditation fountain burbled in the corner. Pike found peace in the natural sound, as if he were alone in the forest. Pike
~ Robert Crais
I said, "Ben. Would you give your mother and me a moment alone, please?" Ben giggled. "You want me to amscray?" "Yes, Ben, I want you to amscray.
~ Robert Crais
Pike unscrewed the interior light so it wouldn't come on, then left the car. It was full-on dark now, and Pike enjoyed the darkness. Darkness, rain, snow, a storm—anything that hid you was good. He circled the house to check the windows, then slipped back onto the porch and let himself in.
~ Robert Crais
She looked at Connor. "How old are you?" His jaw shifted. "I doona discuss my private life." "I can translate that for you," Phineas offered. "It means he's embarrassed he was a caveman and ate brontosaurus burgers for lunch." Connor arched an eyebrow at him. "The correct translation is 'sod off.'
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Your prowess in the bedchamber, my lord." His eyes widened. "How would they know what I'm doing in bed?
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
10phtCrack. The magic this program performs is taken for granted by those who use it, and I suspect thoroughly hated by a great many others. The l0pht group garnered media attention because they wrote a tool (called 10phtCrack) that quickly cracked password hashes.
~ Kevin D. Mitnick
for example the rule set called leetspeak—a system for replacing letters with numbers, as in "k3v1n m17n1ck.
~ Kevin D. Mitnick