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Plato: Bad people

“Bad people will find a way around the laws.” —Plato.

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Willard Scott: Weather

“Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.” —Willard Scott.

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: Freedom

“Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act. And hence there is no fear… a mind that has no fear is capable of great love.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti.

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Dorothy Parker: Quicksilver

“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.” —Dorothy Parker.

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Jonathan Walpole: Biggest issue

“The biggest issue you’ll face in security, and in life, is your own stupidity.” —Jonathan Walpole.

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B R Myers: 'Dumb' animals

“Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This point was well demonstrated in the minutes before last December’s tsunami [2004], when tourists grabbed their digital cameras and ran after the ebbing surf, and all the ‘dumb’ animals made…

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Vikram Sarabhai: Music

“He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.” —Vikram Sarabhai.

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Ogden Nash: Kempt

“I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.” —Ogden Nash.

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Edgar Guest: I'd rather see a sermon

“I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.” —Edgar Guest.

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George D Prentice: Profundity

“Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can’t understand his own meaning.” —George D. Prentice.

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Milan Kundera: Dogs

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.” —Milan Kundera.

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Ovid: Opportunity

“Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let our hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.” —Ovid.

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Gulzar: Walk across the line

“Dreams heed no borders, the eyes need no visas. With eyes shut I walk across the line in time. All the time.” —Gulzar.

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F Scott Fitzgerald: Test of a first-rate intelligence

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Bruce Schneier: History has taught us

“History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It’s always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the…

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Kehlog Albran: I have seen the future

“I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer.” —Kehlog Albran, The Profit.

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Walter Scott: High though his titles

“High though his titles, proud his name, / Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; / Despite those titles, power, and pelf, / The wretch, concentred all in self, / Living, shall forfeit fair renown, / And, doubly dying, shall go down / To the vile dust from whence he sprung, / Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.” —Walter Scott.