“If you think that this life is all there is,” added Christopher, “it’s catastrophic.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“History often provides a lens through which irony comes into focus.” — Ted Koppel History Copy Share Image
“The August 2003 blackout was a wake-up call for both industry and government regulators.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“the Internet, among its many, many virtues, is also a weapon of mass destruction.” — Ted Koppel Destruction Copy Share Image
“And let the record show: it is not easy to convince the American public of anything. For” — Ted Koppel American public Copy Share Image
“If someone was able to hack into an RTO or ISO and deliberately overload the lines, the impact would be swift and… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“the only institution with real power to decide how the power industry is protected is the power industry.” — Ted Koppel Power Copy Share Image
“He is convinced that China and Russia have already penetrated the U.S. power grid, both for purposes of reconnaissance and, very likely,… — Ted Koppel Hacker Copy Share Image
“Breaking up the industry into a marketplace of interconnected parts introduced competition, which lowered prices. It also increased the system’s vulnerability to… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“Deregulation of the power industry has created a system with more vulnerable points of entry than ever existed previously, and a lot… — Ted Koppel Around the world Copy Share Image
“I think the Lord’s saying, ‘Do this so that if something happens you will be prepared, but I think the real test… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“A man who spends five years assembling thousands of adobe blocks is not easily offended. “I’m a little bit eccentric,” he allowed,… — Ted Koppel Easily offended Copy Share Image
My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“what they have achieved is extraordinary. No group of comparable size comes close to matching the scale and organizational discipline of the… — Ted Koppel Discipline Copy Share Image
“Still, many of the advantages enjoyed by millions of people today emerged from designs and inventions produced by innovators inspired by nothing… — Ted Koppel Engineering Copy Share Image
“None of these people has suggested that there is anything simple about sabotaging a grid; they say only that the capability exists,… — Ted Koppel Hacker Copy Share Image
Look, fundamentally there are two sets of questions that apply in the war against terrorism. The one set of questions deals with… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show… — Ted Koppel Absolutes Copy Share Image
Every single of us is going to be saying, "Thank God, finally, an interesting convention." But you're right about all those people… — Ted Koppel Angry Copy Share Image
“This tension has resulted, in the electric power industry, in a high-stakes duel between corporations and government regulators, the consequences of which… — Ted Koppel Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“We have come to know how nuclear weapons can destroy societies and human civilization. We have not yet begun to understand how… — Ted Koppel Cyber warfare Copy Share Image
The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone… — Ted Koppel Age Copy Share Image
“There are emergency preparedness plans in place for earthquakes and hurricanes, heat waves and ice storms. There are plans for power outages… — Ted Koppel Emergency preparedness Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes the Mormons is their extraordinary focus on the integration of self-sufficiency and charity. That” — Ted Koppel Generosity Copy Share Image
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. — Ted Koppel Anchorman Copy Share Image
“(Several nation-states, most prominently the Russians and the Chinese, have already spent years conducting just such reconnaissance.)” — Ted Koppel Russians Copy Share Image
“That physical orderliness would be an early indicator of the church’s own structure. It” — Ted Koppel Orderliness Copy Share Image
“How overburdened civic organizations would respond, to say nothing of individual citizens, is unknowable.” — Ted Koppel Unknowable Copy Share Image
“North Korea, which straddles categories: a nation-state with the instincts of a terrorist organization.” — Ted Koppel Korea Copy Share Image
“smaller companies with lean profit margins are simply not inclined to spend a great deal on cybersecurity.” — Ted Koppel Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“the system is not designed to generate the most rigorous standards. Only” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“Conflicting risk assessments among our national leaders and foremost experts will become a recurring theme.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“If you can break key transmission lines, said Clarke, you can produce cascading, potentially catastrophic outages.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“It’s not easy maintaining a cynical outlook in the face of what appears to be a thoroughly charitable mindset,” — Ted Koppel Cynical Copy Share Image
“There’s plenty of people that understand what needs to be done. It’s policy and it’s money” standing in the way.” — Ted Koppel Money Copy Share Image
“These days, NORAD’s peak period of public visibility is at Christmastime when it tracks the course of Santa and his sleigh.” — Ted Koppel Christmas Copy Share Image
“Non-diversity,” Jeff continued, “makes for, you know, very little stress.” If” — Ted Koppel Stress Copy Share Image
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming. — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“American democracy rests on a foundation of competing tensions among local, state, and federal laws,” — Ted Koppel American democracy Copy Share Image
