Zitat des Tages über Spionage / Spying:
Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.
Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.
In general, I do not agree with spying against one's country.
I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.
It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.
The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
Spying has always gone on since ancient times.
The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.
