Ted Waitt Quotes

I was so naive to think once you sign, it's all good, and you are a superstar.

The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that when you start misleading the American people and start taking their money over false promises, that's our turf, buddy!

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.

Something seems to happen to people when they meet a journalist, and what happens is exactly the opposite of what one would expect. One would think that extreme wariness and caution would be the order of the day, but, in fact, childish trust and impetuosity are far more common.

I don't think the Internet is necessarily a dangerous place. It's only dangerous if you don't make people earn your trust. You can't take people at their word. You got to do a little digging and make sure to verify that you are talking to a real person or the person that you think you're talking to.

The Internet is crazy, and I love it!

I'm excited about all technology.

Silicon Valley has a lot of noise, a lot of hype. People are very excited about all of the Facebook stuff, Facebook applications. It's just been a huge hype over the last year when actually... there isn't really that much value.

Materialism isn't the panacea that so many people think it is.

You feel everybody has your best interests in mind, but you come to find out that's not necessarily the case.

We're so excited about technology. We can help turn the impossible into the possible.

It's always been the same from a long time ago, it's people with promises and people dangling carrots and when you're young and impressionable, and ambitious, you want to believe them. I was always lucky because there was always part of me that didn't believe these people.

I got so many people that have my number. It's crazy. I just don't feel like texting anybody back after I get, like, 30 text messages in three hours. I just be chilling.

My mom is really naive - she thinks that because she is honest, other people will be honest too. That's not the way it works.

Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.