Top 6 Nicole Perlroth Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Organizations can’t stop the world from changing. The best they can do is adapt. The smart ones change before they have to. The lucky ones manage to scramble and adjust, when push comes to shove. The rest are losers, and they become history.”

— Nicole Perlroth

2. “In the United States, though, convenience was everything; it still is. We were plugging anything we could into the internet, at a rate of 127 devices a second. We had bought into Silicon Valley’s promise of a frictionless society. There wasn’t a single area of our lives that wasn’t touched by the web. We could now control our entire lives, economy, and grid via a remote web control. And we had never paused to think that, along the way, we were creating the world’s largest attack surface.”

— Nicole Perlroth

3. “Putin laid down only two rules for Russia’s hackers. First, no hacking inside the motherland. And second, when the Kremlin calls in a favor, you do whatever it asks. Otherwise, hackers had full autonomy. And oh, how Putin loved them.”

— Nicole Perlroth

4. “And yet here we were, entrusting our entire digital lives – passwords, texts, love letters, banking records, health records, credit cards, sources, and deepest thoughts – to this mystery box, whose inner circuitry most of us would never vet, run by code written in a language most of us will never fully understand.”

— Nicole Perlroth

5. “Our elections. they cannot be conducted online. Period.”

— Nicole Perlroth

$Nicole Perlroth Quote: “The crux of Putin’s foreign policy was to undercut the West’s grip on global affairs. With every hack and disinformation campaign, Putin’s digital army sought to tie Russia’s opponents up in their own politics and distract them from Putin’s real agenda: fracturing support for Western democracy and, ultimately, NATO – the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – the only thing holding Putin in check.”$

6. “The crux of Putin’s foreign policy was to undercut the West’s grip on global affairs. With every hack and disinformation campaign, Putin’s digital army sought to tie Russia’s opponents up in their own politics and distract them from Putin’s real agenda: fracturing support for Western democracy and, ultimately, NATO – the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – the only thing holding Putin in check.”

— Nicole Perlroth