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Top 25 Marc Goodman Quotes (2025 Update)

Marc Goodman Quote: “If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us.”

1. “If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology. BRUCE SCHNEIER Cyber.”

2. “If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology. BRUCE SCHNEIER Cyber.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “Open-source warfare and crowdsourced crime must be met with open-source security and crowdsourced public safety.”

3. “Open-source warfare and crowdsourced crime must be met with open-source security and crowdsourced public safety.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “The day before something becomes a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea. PETER DIAMANDIS.”

4. “The day before something becomes a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea. PETER DIAMANDIS.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “No matter how many firewalls, encryption technologies, and antivirus scanners a company uses, if the human being behind the keyboard falls for a con, the company is toast. According to a 2014 in-depth study by IBM Security Services, up to 95 percent of security incidents involved human error.”

5. “No matter how many firewalls, encryption technologies, and antivirus scanners a company uses, if the human being behind the keyboard falls for a con, the company is toast. According to a 2014 in-depth study by IBM Security Services, up to 95 percent of security incidents involved human error.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. OMAR N. BRADLEY.”

6. “If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. OMAR N. BRADLEY.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “Who was this criminal mastermind behind Silk Road? Not at all whom you would expect. Ross Ulbricht was the kind of kid any parent would be proud of, an Eagle Scout from Austin, Texas, who had earned a master’s degree in science and engineering.”

7. “Who was this criminal mastermind behind Silk Road? Not at all whom you would expect. Ross Ulbricht was the kind of kid any parent would be proud of, an Eagle Scout from Austin, Texas, who had earned a master’s degree in science and engineering.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.”

8. “We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “If there is one thing that gives me considerable solace after nearly two decades working in the field of global security, it is this: the good people in this world vastly outnumber the bad. That is a huge benefit but one that we have not fully leveraged to our benefit.”

9. “If there is one thing that gives me considerable solace after nearly two decades working in the field of global security, it is this: the good people in this world vastly outnumber the bad. That is a huge benefit but one that we have not fully leveraged to our benefit.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “To paraphrase an old philosophical question, if a tree falls on the Internet and no search engine indexes it, does it make any noise?”

10. “To paraphrase an old philosophical question, if a tree falls on the Internet and no search engine indexes it, does it make any noise?”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “The ability of one to affect many is scaling exponentially – and it’s scaling for good and it’s scaling for evil.”

11. “The ability of one to affect many is scaling exponentially – and it’s scaling for good and it’s scaling for evil.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “Screens tell you not what is really out there but what the government or Facebook thinks you should see. If you searched for something and it wasn’t there, how would you know it really was? To paraphrase an old philosophical question, if a tree falls on the Internet and no search engine indexes it, does it make any noise? As we live our lives increasingly mediated through screens, when it doesn’t exist online, it doesn’t exist.”

12. “Screens tell you not what is really out there but what the government or Facebook thinks you should see. If you searched for something and it wasn’t there, how would you know it really was? To paraphrase an old philosophical question, if a tree falls on the Internet and no search engine indexes it, does it make any noise? As we live our lives increasingly mediated through screens, when it doesn’t exist online, it doesn’t exist.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition. ALVIN TOFFLER.”

13. “One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition. ALVIN TOFFLER.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “When votes become electrons recorded in computers, there is an opportunity for malicious actors to exert influence.”

14. “When votes become electrons recorded in computers, there is an opportunity for malicious actors to exert influence.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “According to a study at Carnegie Mellon University, the average American encounters 1,462 privacy policies a year, each with an average length of 2,518 words. If one were to read each and every one of those policies, it would take seventy-six full workdays, at eight hours a day, from our lives.”

15. “According to a study at Carnegie Mellon University, the average American encounters 1,462 privacy policies a year, each with an average length of 2,518 words. If one were to read each and every one of those policies, it would take seventy-six full workdays, at eight hours a day, from our lives.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “But many of these Silicon Valley entrepreneurs hard at work creating our technological future pay precious little attention to the public policy, legal, ethical, and security risks that their creations pose to the rest of society.”

16. “But many of these Silicon Valley entrepreneurs hard at work creating our technological future pay precious little attention to the public policy, legal, ethical, and security risks that their creations pose to the rest of society.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “Facebook’s own security department has shockingly acknowledged that over 600,000 accounts are compromised every day.”

17. “Facebook’s own security department has shockingly acknowledged that over 600,000 accounts are compromised every day.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “Those very same metadata are contained in millions of photographs posted to sale and auction sites such as Craigslist and eBay. For example, a photograph of a diamond ring or an iPad posted on Craigslist might have embedded with it the precise location of your home where the photograph was taken.”

18. “Those very same metadata are contained in millions of photographs posted to sale and auction sites such as Craigslist and eBay. For example, a photograph of a diamond ring or an iPad posted on Craigslist might have embedded with it the precise location of your home where the photograph was taken.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “Fifty-five percent of people use the same password across most Web sites, and 40 percent don’t even bother to use one at all on their smart phones.”

19. “Fifty-five percent of people use the same password across most Web sites, and 40 percent don’t even bother to use one at all on their smart phones.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “In China, organ brokers are particularly targeting young people in Internet forums with slogans such as “Donate a kidney, buy the new iPad.”

20. “In China, organ brokers are particularly targeting young people in Internet forums with slogans such as “Donate a kidney, buy the new iPad.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “Why would people write down their passwords on Post-it notes and stick them on their computers? Because making people change them every two weeks and requiring that they be at least twenty characters long, with an uppercase letter, a number, a symbol, a haiku, and in iambic pentameter, is just too much for the average user to handle. So people subvert the security systems in place so that they can get their work done.”

21. “Why would people write down their passwords on Post-it notes and stick them on their computers? Because making people change them every two weeks and requiring that they be at least twenty characters long, with an uppercase letter, a number, a symbol, a haiku, and in iambic pentameter, is just too much for the average user to handle. So people subvert the security systems in place so that they can get their work done.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “The more we plug our devices and our lives into the global information grid – whether via mobile phones, social networks, elevators, or self-driving cars – the more vulnerable we become to those who know how the underlying technologies work and how to exploit them to their advantage and to the detriment of the common man.”

22. “The more we plug our devices and our lives into the global information grid – whether via mobile phones, social networks, elevators, or self-driving cars – the more vulnerable we become to those who know how the underlying technologies work and how to exploit them to their advantage and to the detriment of the common man.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “In an instant, all of his data, including every baby picture he had taken during his daughter’s first year of life, were destroyed.”

23. “In an instant, all of his data, including every baby picture he had taken during his daughter’s first year of life, were destroyed.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “When you post your vacation plans on social media and burglars pay a visit, it was your decision to share that helped facilitate their criminal activity.”

24. “When you post your vacation plans on social media and burglars pay a visit, it was your decision to share that helped facilitate their criminal activity.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “Today 89 percent of employees are accessing work-related information on their mobile phones, and 41 percent are doing so without permission of their companies.”

25. “Today 89 percent of employees are accessing work-related information on their mobile phones, and 41 percent are doing so without permission of their companies.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “That also means the antivirus software you are running on your own computer is likely only catching 5 percent of the emerging threats targeting your machine. If your body’s own immune system had a batting average like that, you would be dead in a matter of hours.”

26. “That also means the antivirus software you are running on your own computer is likely only catching 5 percent of the emerging threats targeting your machine. If your body’s own immune system had a batting average like that, you would be dead in a matter of hours.”

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Marc Goodman Quote: “The noted Yale computer science professor Edward Tufte once observed that there are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: computer designers and drug dealers. Importantly, you are equally as likely to recover damages from either of them for the harms their products cause.”

27. “The noted Yale computer science professor Edward Tufte once observed that there are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: computer designers and drug dealers. Importantly, you are equally as likely to recover damages from either of them for the harms their products cause.”

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