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Quotes About Monitoring

It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.
~ Ron Wyden
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
~ Andy Warhol
To AFTEREYE  (A'FTEREYE)   v.a.[from after and eye.]To keep one in view; to follow in view. Thou shouldst have made himAs little as a crow, or less, ere leftTo aftereye him.Shakespeare'sCymbeline.
~ Samuel Johnson
Regular monitoring both of behavioural progress and of consequences is of course necessary if the organism is to learn.
~ John Bowlby
Not only is progress of the overall activity monitored but progress of each bit of it is monitored as well.
~ John Bowlby
personal privacy. That debate, a quaint twentieth-century one, is just ignorant background noise: the right to privacy is gone, lost already, or at least so compromised it's really worthless. No, the real present and future threat is manipulation, the inculcation of prescribed attitudes and modes of behavior into an unwitting citizenry, the unseen shift by the state from monitoring to control, the last chapter of the long tale of democracy, free will deformed into willing compliance.
~ Anthony McCarten
America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security. Whether it's allowing the NSA to go way too far in what it intercepts of our personal data, to our government monitoring of everything domestically and spending way more than we should.
~ Erik Prince
Always have two radar detectors. One to see if there are any cops around, and the second one to make sure there aren't any cops around.
~ Amanda Shires
What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid.
~ Sherman Austin
There's a wire injected under my skin a few days before an event and connected to that is a wireless transmitter. That device communicates my blood-glucose levels to the receiver unit, which is mounted above my steering wheel.
~ Charlie Kimball
Even as our unwitting alterations to Earth's carbon and hydrological cycles slowly make storms more damaging, our ability to monitor our planet from space and make reliable short-term forecasts have equipped us enormously to withstand them.
~ David Grinspoon
If Saudi Aramco is listed, then it must announce its statements, and it will do that every quarter. It will be under the supervision of all Saudi banks, all analysts, all Saudi thinkers. Even more, all international banks and research and planning centres in the world will monitor it intensively.
~ Mohammad bin Salman
I have a nutritionist and a doctor. Everything is checked. Thoroughly. Everything I take is checked out first.
~ Alistair Overeem
People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any of those things. The fact is, all the SETI efforts to date have only closely examined a couple thousand nearby stars, and we're only just now learning which of those might have promising planets.
~ Frank Drake
Los escritores contemporáneos no se leen los unos a los otros, sino que se vigilan.
~ Manuel Rivas
Ongoing evaluation
~ Marc S. Sabatine
The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.
~ Alexis Ohanian
There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.
~ George W. Bush
Technology can do amazing things for us. It's something we need to keep an eye on.
~ Joseph Kosinski
In SLA management, you think services, see SLA, hear SLO, perform SLA management.
~ Mussadiq Abdul Rahim
In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.
~ Bernard Madoff
I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.
~ Kevin Mitnick
THE TALAMASCA We watch And we are always here.
~ Anne Rice
That kind of random surveillance is almost impossible to defeat.
~ Sebastian Junger