Quotes About Passwords

#1. If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.

Barton Gellman

#2. I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.

Rachel Sklar

#3. It's proper Netiquette to protect data with passwords.

David Chiles

#4. I don't want him to be in my passwords .. I want him for real !

Ritu Singh

#5. Updating passwords and changing them all the time is something I'm involved in.

Christian Slater

#6. By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.

Barton Gellman

#7. The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo Eric Schmidt's view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.

Glenn Greenwald

#8. Seth hustled over. "What's the password?"
"Passwords are for sissies," Warren's muffled voice responded.
"Works for me," Seth said, unlocking the door and opening it.

Brandon Mull

#9. Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.

Pablo Neruda

#10. Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

Barton Gellman

#11. There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could.

David Sedaris

#12. My brain's just full of passwords.

Karl Pilkington

#13. You don't need passwords, you don't want to check phones. Sometimes you only want the other person to just tell you the truth!

Manasa Rao

#14. When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.

Margaret Atwood

#15. If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?

Sarah Harrison

#16. Because to hackers, passwords were even more odious than locked doors.

Steven Levy

#17. The best thing to do is always keep randomly generated passwords everywhere and use a password tool to manage it, and then you don't have to remember those passwords at all, just the master password that unlocks the database.

Kevin Mitnick

#18. This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

Daniel Wallace

#19. The dedication of passwords was the new fellowship of marriage. To each other, couples had become furtive asterisks

Manu Joseph

#20. The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if it's easy to remember, it's something nonrandom like 'Susan.' And if it's random, like 'r7U2*Qnp,' then it's not easy to remember.

Bruce Schneier

#21. I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.

Kevin Mitnick

#22. I had a relationship where we found out each other's Facebook passwords and would check each other's messages. That's not healthy.

Rachel Bloom

#23. I don't understand what apps are on my phone. Why do they ask for passwords? Why do they all ask for different passwords? It's so frustrating that I end up just reading a book every time I try to go online.

Chelsea Handler

#24. Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.

Deva Premal

#25. Passwords are like underwear: you don't let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn't share it with strangers.

Chris Pirillo

#26. The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.

Kevin Mitnick

#27. Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.

Ariel Garten

#28. Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end

Isaac Mayer Wise

#29. Weak passwords are a crook's best friend. Make yours long and complex, and change them often - not just on your bank account but on your email and social media, too.

Jean Chatzky

#30. I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.

Larry Bucshon

#31. Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I'm sure it's illegal. It's also an effort to undermine free speech.

Noam Chomsky

#32. We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#33. If you want to make more money by closing online leads, you have to pick up the damn phone. If you have more usernames and passwords than customers you are doing it wrong.

Chris Smith

#34. I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password.

George Harrison