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Newton Lee is a computer scientist who is an author and administrator in the field of education and technology commercialization. He is best known for his total information awareness book series available in more than 1,000 libraries worldwide.

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Newton Lee Quotes

“The FBI may decide to leave a suspected mole undisturbed for years in order to feed him false critical information at an opportune moment or to use him to catch a bigger fish.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“The mysterious universe cannot be explained from one angle alone; instead it requires multiple paradigms including Newtonian physics, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“Give a human face to drug users and understand why they need narcotics is the only chance that we have to win the war on drugs. … Give a human face to terrorists and understand why they resort to violence is the only chance that we have to win the war on terror.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“Forgiveness, not vengeance, yields peace and security.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“When people refuse to see how things look from another point of view, their silo mentality has fueled arguments in families, disputes with neighbors, bigotry between races, and conflicts among nations.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“By losing his religion, he has found God.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“In time, robots will be more versatile and ubiquitous.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“The U. S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and efficient operation in serving their customers and outwitting their competitors.”

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Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“As M said in the 2015 James Bond movie Spectre, “All the surveillance in the world can’t tell you what to do next. A license to kill is also a license not to kill.” America can exert its influence globally without resorting to war.”

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Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“With the massive amount of personal data on the Internet, Facebook nation has opened Pandora's box of total information awareness in the age of big data. Fortunately, Pandora's box released not only evil but also hope. … The hope is that good will trump evil.”

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Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“Given the chance to let machines do the job, Google cofounder Larry Page estimated that nine out of 10 people “wouldn’t want to be doing what they’re doing today.” The remaining 10 % really love their jobs and make no distinction between working and playing.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“Experiencing a melting pot of cultures within an immediate or extended family on a daily basis is nothing less than marvelous, stimulating, and conducive to personal growth.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“In spite of the potential risk of misinformation and disinformation, anonymous social apps can be powerful tools for citizen journalists, whistleblowers, political activists, crime tippers, and other cybercitizens whose online privacy is a matter of the utmost importance.”

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Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“One can postulate that the supercomputer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was subtly referring to the 42-line Bible, better known as the Gutenberg Bible”

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Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“Transhumanists would invest in better infrastructure that can withstand hurricane, earthquakes, and natural or manmade disasters.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“Sometimes the answers are hiding in plain sight. A eureka moment came to Archimedes when he connected the dots between the ordinary routine of taking a bath and the scientific pursuit of determining the volume of an irregularly shaped object.”

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Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“The two-way street of Total Information Awareness is the road that leads to a more transparent and complete picture of ourselves, our governments, and our world.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“As artificial intelligence continues to evolve into superintelligence, King Solomon's challenge will supersede the Turing test.”

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Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“Marc Goodman, global security advisor and futurist, spoke at the TEDGlobal 2012 in Edinburgh about his ominous warning: “If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us.” First source code, then genetic code. Transhumanists are well aware of that danger and are highly respectful of individual freedom and privacy in the new era of total information awareness.”

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Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“American musician and activist Henry Rollins once said, "A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others." Murdering innocent people who are defenseless is a cowardly act. Standing up to difficult life circumstances and oppressive regimes is bravery.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“To some, Facebook is both a self-published tabloid and a public relations gem. To others, Facebook is a communication tool for families and friends around the world to stay in touch. From a macroscopic point of view, Facebook offers insights into public sentiments and national trends. In a microscopic view, Facebook allows people to reach out and connect on a very personal level.”

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Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“Transhumanism is the most inclusive ideology for all ethnicities and races, the religious and atheists, conservatives and liberals, young and old.”

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Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“Nature shows us its artistic beauty that sciences explain the hows and religions contemplate the whys.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“A man who is at peace with himself is less likely to turn into an extremist or a terrorist.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“Personal analytics combined with social networks provide a high-tech mechanism for self-help and self-improvement.”

Newton Lee

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“Better information awareness does not mean less personal freedoms. Feeling safe in school is a prerequisite for a conducive learning environment. Everyone should be free to express their opinions, voice their concerns, and become better informed.”

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Source: Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“Online births and deaths in Facebook Nation made me question why people could not live without borders. Birthright citizenship is like being baptized into a religion as an infant. Taking a page from Veronica Roth’s novel Divergent, people should be free to choose where they belong when they grow up.”

Newton Lee

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“Since the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century, mass media has ushered in a new era of collective consciousness – a set of shared beliefs, ideas, and moral attitudes that operate as a unifying force within society. Notwithstanding the danger of assimilation akin to the Borg in Star Trek, the Internet is accelerating collective consciousness and revolutionizing economy, politics, and education, among others.”

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Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“According to the second law of thermodynamics, the sum of the entropies of the participating bodies must increase. Yet, living organisms seem to exhibit a deliberate anti-entropic force that hints at “by design” rather than “by chance.””

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Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“One should not underestimate the power of persuasion by well-crafted propaganda films. D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation in 1915 helped to resurrect Ku Klux Klan in Georgia; and Leni Riefenstahl's award-winning Triumph of the Will in 1935 helped fuel the rise of Nazism in Germany.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“A more well-rounded higher education is necessary to graduate more ethical hackers and fewer cybercriminals, more socially responsible leaders and fewer wolves of Wall Street.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“Through knowledge, you can develop the economy. Without knowledge, you cannot improve a society.”

Newton Lee

American Film Institute (November 4, 2006)

“Drugs and terrorism are both mind-altering and deadly.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“With quantum computing, scientists are learning how to better formulate questions, lest we end up with a perplexing answer like “42.””

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“Social media amplifies both the good side and the dark side of human nature. … Notwithstanding human ignorance, freedom of expression is essential.”

Newton Lee

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“There is nothing like having a United Nations at home.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“Although our every move may be monitored and recorded, we feel complete freedom to do whatsoever we want other than causing harm to others or damages to properties.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: data brokers are like the Wild West -- untamed and without governance.”

Newton Lee

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“Transhumanists are building the Tower of Babel not to challenge God but to better understand the universe and human beings created in God’s image.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“The last thing we want is a nasty divorce between humans and superintelligent machines, for that would certainly spell the end of the human race.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“To quote computer graphics pioneer Ivan Sutherland who said in 1965: "The ultimate display would, of course, be a room within which the computer can control the existence of matter. A chair displayed in such a room would be good enough to sit in. Handcuffs displayed in such a room would be confining, and a bullet displayed in such a room would be fatal."”

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Sutherland's futuristic vision sounds just like Star Trek’s holodeck!
Digital Da Vinci: Computers in the Arts and Sciences, 2014

“Media manipulation is commonplace. For people who do not look outside their comfort zone, they will never learn the whole truth. If scientists had not challenged the status quo, we would not have enjoyed modern medicine and technological innovations today.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return. … Instead of turning back, we must continue to innovate and push humanity towards the next point of no return. It is a good thing.”

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Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“While Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) helps prevent World War III, Total Information Awareness (TIA) offers insights into some of the biggest challenges facing humanity.”

Newton Lee

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“Not only that “every dog has its day”, but also that “every dog has its data” in the digital information age.”

Newton Lee

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“The future is arriving sooner than we imagine.”

Newton Lee

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“Universities are good at producing engineers, doctors, lawyers, and such, but they often gloss over difficult moral and philosophical subjects such as the meaning of life, love, prejudice, war, and peace.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“One of the root causes of miscommunication is that people do not always mean what they say or do.”

Newton Lee

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014