When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people.

As I have said in the past, revealing specific targets or successes of U.S. intelligence activities is not in the public interest.

We're not getting a good return on investment on all that money we're pumping into the intelligence community. One of the first things I would suggest is that if there's an attack and they fail to stop it or to alert us before it happens, that we ought to start cutting their budget, and for every attack they should lose ten percent of their budget.

If you're in government, that's one of the one things you have to do is to always avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

We saw a big bang in PCs; we saw a big bang in the Internet. I believe the next big bang is going to be even bigger. To be ready for that, we need to set the foundation, and that foundation is SoftBank Vision Fund.

If you're not careful, the Internet will gobble up your entire life.

I think my worst habit is struggling with technology, even though I know how this stuff works, I need to bring conscious thought into how I use.

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.