CyberStorm Quotes

“Technology couldn't revert, but humans could, and they did with startling ease and rapidity when the trappings of the modern world melted away. The tribal animal was always there, hiding just beneath our thin skins of lattes and cell phones and cable TV.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“The separation between the cyber and the physical worlds was disappearing. Cyberbullying was just bullying, and cyberwar was just war - the true age of cyber began when we started removing it as a descriptor.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“Without artificial light, humans were scared animals that scurried into their nests at sunset. Darkness brought out the monsters that existed in our primal collective imaginations, the creatures from under the bed, all of which disappeared with the flick of a switch and the warm glow of an incandescent bulb. Modern cities were filled with massive and awe-inspiring structures, but without artificial light,”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“Freedom is civil liberty, and the foundation of civil liberty is privacy. No privacy means no civil liberty means no freedom. You know why they don’t just fingerprint everyone?”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“If you don’t pay for a product, then you are the product.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“For just a moment I allowed myself the pleasure of watching her naked, wet body climb out of the tub.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“She sighed and pushed herself back into me. “Mike, I’m so proud of you.” In one motion, she swiveled around in the tub and kissed me wetly. “I love you.” Reaching down, I gripped her buttocks and pulled her up onto me. I was aroused, and she smiled, biting my lip. Just then there was a loud rap on the door.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“Technology couldn’t revert, but humans could, and they did so with startling ease and swiftness when the trappings of the modern world melted away.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“1910 there were more electric-powered cars on the streets of New York than gas-powered ones, and everyone back then assumed that electric cars were the future—they made a lot more sense than the crazy engines that ran on controlled explosions of volatile, toxic chemicals. But Rockefeller funded Ford to make sure that gas-powered cars, not electric, would be the way of the future, so he would have a place to sell his oil.” “I”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“Freedom is civil liberty, and the foundation of civil liberty is privacy. No privacy means no civil liberty means no freedom.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“The criminals force society to improve. They weed out the weak, making us strengthen our institutions and networks.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“Deterrence based on fear is a holdover from the Cold War.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm: An Apocalyptic Thriller

“Freedom is civil liberty, and the foundation of civil liberty is privacy. No privacy means no civil liberty means no freedom. You know why they don’t”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“Fear isn’t the answer. If we’re afraid of everything, then we’re afraid to do anything, and that means we’re giving up our freedom. You were right!”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“pulled the catfish out of the water, and it dangled in front of us, trapped by something it didn’t understand.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“This is it!” I yelled to Damon. “Any last words?” “Give me a second.” “Those are your last words?”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“Or CNN was bombed,” joked Chuck. “Not that I would be entirely against that.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“Meat is murder,” laughed Chuck. “Tasty, tasty murder. You’d be surprised what you can stomach when you need”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“The Internet is in cyberspace, but we”—he paused for effect—“are in meatspace, get it?”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“What I wouldn’t have given to have a simple relationship with my in-laws, but then, that was a boat most people were rowing with me.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“Our grandfathers stormed the beaches of Normandy to protect our freedom. And now, because we’re afraid and not willing to accept personal risk, we’re giving up those same freedoms that they fought and died for. We’re giving away our freedom because we’re scared.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“We’re maturing.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“trying to listen.” If the physical environment was turning into a cesspit, the interpersonal environment was even worse. It was poisonous. “That’s just some stupid hack,” shot back Damon. The president’s message hadn’t started yet, and we were listening to a commentator speculating about what he might say. I tried to defuse the tension. “He was just messing around, trying to lighten things—” “We’ve had enough of your messing around,” growled Richard,”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“pessimist,”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“With a typical Fortune 500 company using thousands of individual software programs, the list of vulnerabilities could hover in the tens of thousands at any given moment. It was an impossible game of catch-up against an adversary that only needed one hole to remain open among literally millions that an organization had to continually fix.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“If you decide to use fire in battle, make sure that anything you need yourself isn’t flammable.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“Not the same. We’re the most wired country on Earth. Everything here is accessible via the Internet, much more so than for anyone else, and way more than the countries we’re picking fights with. We’re totally vulnerable to cyberattack on a massive scale, but they’re much less exposed.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“Fear. Fear is the real enemy.” He looked up at the ceiling. “Fear and ignorance.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“While space requires a massive amount of money, all that you need to get into cyberspace is a laptop.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm

“I spent most of the rest of the time chauffeuring them around to meet their friends at places like the Metropolitan Club, the Core Club, and of course the Harvard Club.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberStorm