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" Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
You
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Brother
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" There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn concision in writing. "
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" George Bush and I share a love of steel brush cutters. It turns out we use the same professional brush cutter. He asked me what I did. I said I cut brush. He says, 'Oh, what do you use?' I said steel. He goes, 'Oh, me too.' "
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" I'm not afraid of code. I mean, I understand how these things work. I thought that that was the one area where Estonia was playing on a level playing field. "
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" If getting young people computer-literate through putting school systems online is a no-brainer, at least in retrospect, getting older people and those in rural areas online can be a tougher nut to crack. "
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" Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well. "
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" It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war. "
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" 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. "
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" People have actually figured out that Estonia is one of the few post-Communist countries that has a genuine image in people's minds as being something. "
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Image
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" There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition. "
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Language
Group
" Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect. "
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Them
Over
" 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. "
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Rich
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" I was surprised by some of my French colleagues who immediately assumed that because I spoke English with an American accent, that, therefore, you must be a supporter of whoever is the current president of the United States. There seems to be this widespread feeling that, 'Oh, American accent - therefore, you like cowboy boots.' "
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Feeling
Like
You
" That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers. "
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Work
Young
Computers
" Since I've been writing about things my entire life, I thought, 'Well, that's what I would do as a president is to read and then write and talk about things that are interesting to me.' "
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Thought
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Life
" In Germany, a country that for obvious reasons is far more attuned than most to the dangers of demagogy, populism, and nationalism, lawmakers have already proposed taking legal measures against fake news. When populist, nationalist fake news threatens the liberal democratic center, other Europeans may follow suit. "
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Legal
News
Nationalism
" I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young. "
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Ever
Young
Academia
" The whole information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure must be regarded as an 'ecosystem' in which everything is interconnected. It functions as a whole; it must be defended as a whole. "
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Communication
Information
Everything
" Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until 2016, an open media was seen as a resilient democratic pillar that supported the others. "
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Law
Elections
Free
" Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone. "
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Everyone
Taken
Seriously
" In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate. "
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Identify
Much
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" The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the run. "
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Agreement
Up
Run
" The E-government cabinet, E-health services, online voting, online pre-filled tax returns, e-mobile parking, are all examples of Estonian innovation, but far more importantly, they are examples of the transformative power of intensive and extensive use of Information Technology in the public sector. "
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" When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the Soviets, we knew we wanted to create a democratic country characterized by rule of law and respect for human rights. "
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" I was the child of refugees. "
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Refugees
Child
" Little by little, we're becoming a boring Nordic country. "
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Little
Boring
" Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power. "
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Power
" The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected' in their current homeland, is unacceptable. Passports are travel documents, not a tool to justify aggression. "
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Practice
Travel
" Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance. "
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Kind
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" The Soviet Union collapsed without a lot of people thinking it should or would, whereas for Estonia, it was something we'd been praying for for 60 years. "
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