I knew who Bruce Springsteen was before he had his first record. Toomas Hendrik Ilves More Quotes by Toomas Hendrik Ilves More Quotes From Toomas Hendrik Ilves Russia has had very aggressive military exercises. They've practiced mock nuclear attacks on Warsaw. Russian bombers practiced attacking strategic military targets in Sweden. The military aggression gets everybody nervous. Toomas Hendrik Ilves aggression nervous russia military There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition. Toomas Hendrik Ilves tradition language identity culture Generally, people's fear and hesitancy regarding greater computerization comes from a George Orwell/'1984'-based metaphor of a single computer or data base where all your information is stored, knows everything about you, and can use this information at will and for evil purposes. Toomas Hendrik Ilves you evil fear people I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young. Toomas Hendrik Ilves ever out been young 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.' Toomas Hendrik Ilves think reading remember father I was the child of refugees. Toomas Hendrik Ilves refugees child 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. Toomas Hendrik Ilves democracy technology science people 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. Toomas Hendrik Ilves cyber security time long 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. Toomas Hendrik Ilves you architecture change people 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. Toomas Hendrik Ilves never well-done news fake 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 computers work people thinking When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here. Toomas Hendrik Ilves surprised here things go The problem of online identity is expressed best in an old 'New Yorker' cartoon with a picture of a dog next to a computer, and the dog says, 'No one online knows you're a dog.' Toomas Hendrik Ilves picture best you dog I realised that if we were not in the E.U., there were people in the E.U. who were also members of NATO that would veto our joining NATO. Toomas Hendrik Ilves nato our who people In both Russia and the U.S., there are a very small number of very, very rich people, and then there are a lot of people who don't have anything. The less inequality you have in a society, the more social peace you have. It's kind of a no-brainer. Toomas Hendrik Ilves you society peace people
