J. G. Ballard Quotes

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

As a rule, governments monitor people.

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

Not everything in the United States is for sale.

] The vast industry of mutual surveillance that grew up alongside the industry of mutual destruction is not about to disappear. The spies, like the weapons, are here to stay. And proliferate, sooner or later, whether we like it or not.

Remember that J. Edgar Hoover’s secret files began in the interests of national security and ended up being used for blackmail.

If we give up all our privacy rights, have we become any safer?

Online censorship, mass and targeted surveillance and data collection, digital attacks on civil society and repression resulting from online expression force individuals around the world to seek security to hold opinions without interference and seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds. Many seek to protect their security through encryption, the scrambling of data so only intended recipients may access it

The Garden Bridge has not found its right moment, but I hope one day it will and that London continues to be open to ideas that make life here better.

Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.

A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

No one is going to come here if it's a filthy city, if it's not a safe city.

If you know anything about Ethiopia, they are very security conscious, a very closed environment. It's a repressive place were journalists and bloggers are arrested all the time.

In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.

With the growing availability of commoditized encryption, it is becoming easier for common criminals to communicate beyond the reach of traditional surveillance.

Most cities are the same.

I don't know if I want to live in a country where lone wolf and random terror attacks are impossible 'cause that country would look more like North Korea than America.

For me, safety is a huge parameter for a city's progress. If your city is safe, it is progressing.

New York City has a tradition of great stations. There are cities in the world that don't have that. New York has it.

The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.

Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda baseball cap, an Al Qaeda uniform.