The current Trump–Silicon Valley consensus—that all forms of regulation somehow constrain the muscular freedom of companies to innovate—is ludicrous.
— Nick CleggDeputy Prime Minister of the UK (2010-2015) & Liberal Democrat Leader
“I believe a key issue is this newfound ability to hide behind our screens, which gives a false sense of impunity, allowing people to express themselves without restraint. Moreover, the surge in social media use seems to be edging out genuine social interactions. The more time we spend glued to our screens, the less we engage in meaningful, real-world exchanges.”— Sara Jane Ho
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At the end of the day, the platforms will complain, but they exist to serve society—society doesn't exist to serve them.
— Nick CleggDeputy Prime Minister of the UK (2010-2015) & Liberal Democrat Leader
One of the great ironies of a company like Meta, where I worked, is that well over 90% of its users are outside the US, yet well over 90% of the bandwidth among decision-makers is focused on what's happening in America. In the end, that just doesn't make sense.
— Nick CleggDeputy Prime Minister of the UK (2010-2015) & Liberal Democrat Leader
We're not just over-reliant—we're wholly reliant—on American technology across the entire stack. Our data sits in American cloud infrastructure; our hardware is American designed; our software and operating systems are overwhelmingly American; most of the AI systems people interact with are American, and so on.
— Nick CleggDeputy Prime Minister of the UK (2010-2015) & Liberal Democrat Leader
Politicians, by and large, don't understand technology at all, and technologists don't understand politicians—and both tend to denigrate each other. The technologists in Silicon Valley see politicians as venal, short-term, and ignorant, while politicians view technologists as rapacious capitalists who will stop at nothing to beat their rivals and lack any ethical compass.
— Nick CleggDeputy Prime Minister of the UK (2010-2015) & Liberal Democrat Leader
If you make it easy to steal from you, someone will. Every breach I've been involved with comes down to the fact that someone in the company did something they weren't supposed to or failed to do something they should have done.
— Frank AbagnaleNotorious con artist and impostor who inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can
Dehumanizing the victim through the internet has enabled people to commit crimes and not worry about their conscience.
— Frank AbagnaleNotorious con artist and impostor who inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can
The vast majority of fraudsters, and criminals get caught not because of good police work, but because they continue doing the same thing over and over again, until someone notices.
— Frank AbagnaleNotorious con artist and impostor who inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can
Criminals are not looking for challenges, but opportunities. Hackers don't cause breaches, they wait for doors to open; and we're making it so easy for people to steal from us that we're creating unlimited doors.
— Frank AbagnaleNotorious con artist and impostor who inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can
We live in a very unethical society. We don't teach ethics at home, schools or university. As a consequence most businesses don't have a code of ethics or conduct.
— Frank AbagnaleNotorious con artist and impostor who inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can
The vast majority of people- if they can benefit from something or make some money, will look the other way. It's personal greed, without thought about the consequences.
— Frank AbagnaleNotorious con artist and impostor who inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can
I want every mother in the world, from Baghdad to New York to be able to guarantee the same strength and health to her child; to give that child the tools to control their happiness and health, and to have the power to live well.
— Wim HofExtreme athlete known for ice exposure & breathing technique methods
Our culture is one of compensation, it's bullshit. We have so many cars, so many houses and so much sex, we lose track of who we are. We need to get back to the core. Through removing stimulation, we've disconnected ourselves from nature, from our innate capacities, and we have to reawaken ourselves.
— Wim HofExtreme athlete known for ice exposure & breathing technique methods
I'm a school drop-out that is now teaching professors and doctors around the world; all because of a naïve woman's wish for her child to live.
— Wim HofExtreme athlete known for ice exposure & breathing technique methods
By consciously and regularly going into the cold- I've learned how to tap into this primordial part of the brain; an area we've lost access to because of our destimulative behaviour. We need to get out into the cold, into the heat, and allow our brain to reconnect to these lost areas which simply are not activated or developed in our daily lives.
— Wim HofExtreme athlete known for ice exposure & breathing technique methods
Within each of us is a deep, complex network of capillaries, veins and arteries which extend a distance equivalent to more than 3 times the circumference of the Earth, and because our body has lost its conditioning to nature, our hearts have to pump 20-30 times a minute more than if we regularly exposed our body to cold water.
— Wim HofExtreme athlete known for ice exposure & breathing technique methods