Ted Koppel > Quotes

“Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will ­ adjust your lives, not the standards.”
― Ted Koppel

“There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.”
― Ted Koppel

“What Moses brought down from Mt Siniai were not ten suggestions. They are Commandments”
― Ted Koppel

“the Internet, among its many, many virtues, is also a weapon of mass destruction.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“And let the record show: it is not easy to convince the American public of anything. For”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“If you go into a big, modern power station in Shanghai, or a big, modern power station in California, you’re going to find the same SCADA software.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“One of the imponderables in our system of government is how rapidly and easily secretaries of state, defense, and treasury, high-ranking military officers, congressmen, senators—indeed, even former presidents of the United States—are, upon departing office, able to transform their expertise, their experience, their contacts into extraordinarily high fees, contracts, and lucrative new businesses.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“It is precisely among young, educated radicals, warns Austin, that a new generation of cyber warriors will be recruited.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“Dispatching journalists into the field to gather information costs money; hiring a glib bloviator is relatively cheap, and inviting opinionated guests to vent on the air is entirely cost-free.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“American democracy rests on a foundation of competing tensions among local, state, and federal laws,”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“it took on average 279 days before companies that had been breached came to realize it or were told by someone else. The”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“Attempting to alert the American public to an impending crisis becomes more difficult when the subject itself is complicated and defies easy or brief explanation.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“These days, NORAD’s peak period of public visibility is at Christmastime when it tracks the course of Santa and his sleigh.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“A skillfully executed cyberattack serves the multiple purposes of inflicting damage and conveying a strong warning, all the while permitting the attacker to deflect accusations with a posture of innocent indignation”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“the extreme vulnerability of SCADA systems to cyber sabotage was first demonstrated, and dramatically so, during the administration of George W. Bush.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“Countries such as Iran and North Korea (of which more in the next chapter) cannot hope to match the United States in their ability to project conventional or nuclear force; what the Pentagon describes as “kinetic power.” Cyberattacks, however, present second- and even third-tier military powers with a fresh avenue for projecting force in the heartland of their enemies, all while enjoying that additional element of deniability.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“There have been, as of this writing, only four secretaries of homeland security. Each of them has conceded the likelihood of a catastrophic cyberattack affecting the power grid; none has developed a plan designed to deal with the aftermath. I”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“Americans, Putnam argued, were going it alone, less inclined to participate in the civic groups that once kept communities close. That is certainly not as true in Wyoming.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“the Internet is also giving rise to “filter bubbles” that decrease users’ exposure to conflicting viewpoints and reinforce their own ideological frames.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“the “youth bulge,” the group of educated, unemployed, and disenfranchised young people who are prime candidates for recruitment by extremist organizations.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“POLITICIANS ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO CREATE PROBLEMS AND THEN CAMPAIGN AGAINST THEM.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“One failure to disinfect, to follow the proper protocol, and a virus spreads from carrier to carrier or program to program. When”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“If someone was able to hack into an RTO or ISO and deliberately overload the lines, the impact would be swift and physical.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“There is simply no reasonable way to respond to those few lines in the commission report estimating that only one in ten of us would survive a year into a nationwide blackout, the rest perishing from starvation, disease, or societal breakdown. When”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“FERC is merely enforcing regulations that it may have proposed but which the industry itself has modified to meet its own interests. Then,”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“In reality, though, the ranks of our enemies, those who would and can inflict serious damage on America, have grown and diversified.”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“has to be connected to the company’s billing department, which in turn needs to be connected to whatever department actually conveys electricity to the home. Each connection provides another potential attack surface. In”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast, and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?” One”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

“the system is not designed to generate the most rigorous standards. Only”
― Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath