Steve Largent Quotes

Providing 'freemium' cloud storage to society is not a crime. What will Hollywood do when smartphones and tablets can wirelessly transfer a movie file within milliseconds?

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body or in your environment.

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

The consequences of a misstep in a well, while large to the immediate people that live around that well, in the great scheme of things are pretty small, and even to the immediate people around the well, they could be mitigated.

The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue.

I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day.

Wi-fi and all the systems we are introducing into our lives are destroying our own natural electro-magnetic fields.

The biggest problem we have is not Ebola, it's not AIDS, it's electro smog.

With the evolution of information technology, there have emerged new questions, for example, of data and privacy.

Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

We have to be very careful, we have to be very vigilant but to think that Apple won't allow us to get into her cell phone - who do they think they are? Now we have to open it up.

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.

Why is there such controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who'd be willing to test any drug they can come up with.

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues.

Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms.

This climate surrounding me has reached Clive Oppenheimer. In practical terms he sees that I'm not interested in any sort of daredevil stunts, I'm just interested in the work. And he's convinced that I'm clinically sane.

What is in the air there in Washington, what is in the water? What is wrong with them? This is not a rhetorical question. I think it is unspoken question No.1 as Americans look at so many of the individuals in our government. What is wrong with them?

...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.

With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away.

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals

Because we aren't certain about the effects of GMOs, we must consider one of the guiding principles in science, the precautionary principle. Under this principle, if a policy or action could harm human health or the environment, we must not proceed until we know for sure what the impact will be. And it is up to those proposing the action or policy to prove that it is not harmful.