Liars and Outliers Quotes

“One hundred years ago, everyone could have personal privacy. You and your friend could walk into an empty field, look around to see that no one else was nearby, and have a level of privacy that has forever been lost. As Whitfield Diffie has said: "No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I don't suppose it occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented”
― Bruce Schneier, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive

“It doesn’t matter how big your neocortex is or how abstractly you can reason: unless you can trust others, your species will forever remain stuck in the Stone Age.”
― Bruce Schneier, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive