Jonathan Nolan Quotes

The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all.

I've got nothing to hide.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

I have nothing to hide!

I don't have anything to hide.

Secrecy is as essential to Intelligence as vestments to a Mass, or darkness to a spiritualist seance, and must at all costs be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

Keep an eye on him who enters announcing that what he asks is secret

Under the classification rules observed by the Senate, we are not even allowed to tap out the truth in Morse code—and we tried just about everything else we could think of to warn the American people.

Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

The life of spies is to know, not bee known.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

I really fight for my privacy.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown.

Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak.

An obsession with secrecy persists in leading industrial countries.