That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.
— Toomas Hendrik Ilves
The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades. It was never very well done until, really, the Ukraine, though I would say that the Russians used to complain about fake things to say the State Department.
People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and technology have very little experience with liberal arts and the traditions of a liberal democracy.
I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.
I knew who Bruce Springsteen was before he had his first record.
The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can't change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force.
I was the child of refugees.
Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect.
The first time cyber was even a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference, which is - I mean, we've got hundreds of specialists there - was 2011. That's how long it took.
I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York Times.'
