"What we do as a society is seek simple answers."

“The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.”

“Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many instances, customers from rich countries circumventing their national laws to exploit children in other countries. Sex tourism has spread its illicit wings wide, and paedophiles search for their victims in all parts of the globe. The problem is compounded by the criminal networks which benefit from the trade in children, and by collusion and corruption in many national settings.”

“We have to find out the technique by which the spirit whispers to our hearts. We have to learn to hear it and to understand it and to know when we have it, and that sometimes takes a long time.”

“The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.”

Source : Kenneth Hare (1957). “Nymphs and Rivers: (a Selection from Poems Composed Between 1910 and 1957)”

“Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com

“In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.”

“I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.”

Source : "Eric Stoltz: 'I felt really great after I lost my mobile phone'". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, January 14, 2011.

“Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.”