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Quotes About Monitoring

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)
~ Juvenal
The development of methods to monitor protein dynamics in cells together with the discovery of specific and general lysosomal inhibitors have resulted in the identification of different classes of cellular proteins, long- and short-lived, and the findings of the differential effects of the inhibitors on these groups.
~ Aaron Ciechanover
Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States.
~ Noam Chomsky
He thinks that there has been some routine polite conversation along the way, but there is never any point in actually monitoring that kind of thing.
~ Neal Stephenson
A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.
~ Timothy Murphy
Parents aren't clamoring for cell-phone companies to monitor their kids. Parents don't want to see what their kids are really like, but MySpace makes that really easy.
~ Tom Anderson
I just want to raise a confident girl. I just want her to know that she doesn't need to be sending naked pictures and doing all that stuff - I'm definitely going to monitor everything. I want to raise her to know that she can go do whatever she wants in life and to be comfortable in her own skin, which I think also just comes with age and time.
~ Kristin Cavallari
There are plenty of officers infiltrating the protestors and making lists of contacts
~ Christopher Fowler
Give us a call or you know, flash a searchlight in the sky with your logo on it, because we monitor everything.
~ Christopher Moore
Firms and employers and monitors will be able to measure economic value with a sometimes oppressive precision.
~ Tyler Cowen
Nessuno è meglio adatto a spiare le azioni d'una persona, di coloro cui non riguardano.
~ Victor Hugo
A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Edward Snowden made an audacious claim: "I, sitting at my desk, could wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email.
~ Glenn Greenwald
contrary to repeated claims from President Obama and the NSA, it is already clear that a substantial number of the agency's activities have nothing to do with antiterrorism efforts or even with national security.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Far from hyperbole, that is the literal, explicitly stated aim of the surveillance state: to collect, store, monitor, and analyze all electronic communication by all people around the globe.
~ Glenn Greenwald
threat or actuality of government surveillance may psychologically inhibit freedom of speech.
~ Glenn Greenwald
The collect-it-all system did nothing to detect, let alone disrupt, the 2012 Boston Marathon bombing. It did not detect the attempted Christmas-day bombing of a jetliner over Detroit, or the plan to blow up Times Square, or the plot to attack the New York City subway system—all of which were stopped by alert bystanders or traditional police powers.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Technology has now enabled a type of ubiquitous surveillance that had previously been the province of only the most imaginative science fiction writers.
~ Glenn Greenwald
for a thirty-day period ending in February 2013, one unit of the NSA collected more than three billion pieces of communication data from US communication systems
~ Glenn Greenwald
Beyond collecting comprehensive data about the online activities of hundreds of millions of people, X-KEYSCORE allows any NSA analyst to search the system's databases by email address, telephone number, or identifying attributes such as an IP address.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has as its goal the complete elimination of electronic privacy worldwide. Far from hyperbole, that is the literal, explicitly stated aim of the surveillance state: to collect, store, monitor, and analyze all electronic communication
~ Glenn Greenwald
Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan.
~ Proverb
There's a saying in Argentina, "When the CEO is looking, the cow grows fatter." A business builds fastest when the CEO is looking at it, because
~ James Altucher
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~ James B. LaValle