Tom Waits Quotes

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Sometimes ruin comes for lack of judgment.

'LOVE' bit me. It was a marvelous idea, but it was also a terrible mistake. It became too popular; it became too popular.

I'm a little bit wary of people. It freaked me out when a fan connected with me on social media, then had plastic surgery to look like me, dyed his hair the same colour, and got a pug dog like mine. He was also a hacker, so I had to change all my passwords.

I will think twice in the future about what I post. Probably three times.

The one thing you can't control is what comes after what you release.

I made a mistake using a private e- mail.And if I had to do it over again, I would, obviously, do it differently. But I'm not going to make any excuses. It was a mistake, and I take responsibility for that.

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.

Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any particular act or policy are rarely those who struggled for it, and the people who are injured are rarely those who opposed it.

Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

When you record something, you never know who's going to hear it.

I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.

I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.

Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.

You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube.