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Early
Accolades for Richard Thieme's Islands in the Clickstream
“Richard Thieme takes us to the edge of cliffs we
know are there but rarely visit ... he wonderfully weaves life, mystery,
and passion through digital and natural worlds with creativity and
imagination. This is delightful and deeply thought provoking reading
full of "aha!" insights.”-Clinton
C. Brooks, Senior Advisor for Homeland Security and Asst.
Deputy Director, NSA
“Richard Thieme sees deeply into the nature of the human
spirit and expresses with great clarity what he observes.” – Joel
Garreau, Washington Post
"Thieme's
ability to be open minded, conspiratorial, ethical, and subversive
all at the same time is very inspiring." - Jeff
Moss, CEO, Black Hat, Inc.
“Richard Thieme teaches experts to see with ‘beginners’ eyes’ and
hackers to think like philosophers. More than a great thinker,
Thieme is an original soul. When you read Richard Thieme, you believe
in the Matrix.” – Sol Tzvi, Senior Security and Privacy
Architext, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft Israel
“Thieme's
Islands in the Clickstream is deeply reflective, enlightening,
and refreshing.” - Peter Neumann, Stanford Research
Institute
“Richard Thieme sees deeply into the nature of networks
and has the uncanny ability to describe what he sees with extraordinary
clarity.” – Howard Schmidt, former Cyber Security Advisor
to the White House and former CSO, Microsoft
“I
believe that you are a practioner of wu wei, the effort to choose
the elegant appropriate contribution to each and every issue
that you address.” - Hal McConnell, fomer intelligence
analyst, NSA
“Cyberspace demands philosophers who know that the price
of freedom is the probability of crime. Keep your hedonists and
give me Richard Thieme. His mind is in orbit but his feet are on
the ground.” – Dan Geer, Chief Scientist, Verdasys,
former Chief Technology Officer, @Stake, Inc.
"Richard
Thieme navigates the complex world of people and computers with
amazing ease and grace. His clarity of thinking is refreshing,
and his insights are profound." - Bruce Schneier,
CEO, Counterpane
"At its best, the Internet connects us to kindred souls,
those who are destined to transform our lives in truly wondrous
ways. My friend, Richard Thieme, first came to me over the Net
and his words and actions have inspired me to see myself and the
world around me in a different light. This collection of his writings
represents a glimpse into the inner workings of a most extraordinary
mind."--Becky Bace, former executive, National Security Agency
“Where
Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle left off, Richard Thieme picks up,
exploring crucial questions about the nature of existence in
the technology age and offering cogent commentary about truth
and meaning that is as relevant to hackers as it is to CEOs. Thieme
is truly an oracle for the Matrix generation”. - Kim
Zetter, Wired News
“Richard
Thieme speaks to the heart. His words more than inspire, they
teach us how to think. The reader is left reeling, dizzy with
insight.” - Robin Roberts, former head of
Information Security R&D, CIA
“These
warm but penetrating essays use insights from hacker culture,
science fiction movies, religion, military doctrine, psychology,
Midwestern family life, literature and history to illuminate unorthodox
but deeply profound ways of understanding ourselves and everything
around us.” - Jennifer Stisa Granick, Esq., Executive
Director, Center for Internet & Society, Cyberlaw Clinic, Stanford
Law School
“Richard
Thieme presents us with a rare gift. His words touch our hearts
while challenging our most cherished constructs. He is both a
poet and pragmatist navigating a new world with clarity, curiosity
and boundless amazement.” - Kelly Hansen, CEO,
Neohapsis
“Richard
Thieme is an extraordinary person in every sense. Only someone
who has lived different lives and could cope with what those
had in stock for him, who sees with soft eyes while reflecting
everything around him, can express the meta layer of today's
world and technology as the one thing it is”. - FX
“WOW!
You eloquently express thoughts and ideas that I feel. You have
helped me, not so much tear down barriers to communication, as
to leverage these barriers into another structure with elevators
and escalators.” - Chip Meadows, USAA e-Security Team
“So
often your story is my story. I am seldom drawn from lurking
on many lists but your recent column draws me to thank you for
what can only be called your pastoring. You are among my teachers,
an actual presence here in this archipelago.” - Michael
Joyce, Author of Afternoon, Vassar College
“Richard
Thieme combines hi-tech, business savvy and social consciousness
to create some of the most penetrating commentaries of our times.
I am always eager to read his work.” - Peter
Russell, author, "From Science to God"
“Richard
Thieme has a knack for not just writing about technology, but
exploring and breaking down the intersection between technology,
politics, society, and humanity. A needed and unique voice from
a unique perspective on the bridge between the techno-mainstream
and its counterpart — the cutting edge. With Richard, there
is no spoon.” - Simple Nomad (Mark Loveless), Bindview
and NMRC
“These
reflections provide a veritable feast for the imagination, allowing
us more fully to participate in Wonder. This book is an experience
of loving Creation with our minds.” - Louie
Crew, Member of Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, Emeritus
Professor at Rutgers University
“The
particular connections Richard Thieme makes between mind, heart,
technology, and truth, lend us timely and useful insight on what
it means to live in a technological era. Richard fills a unique
and important niche in hacker society!” - Mick
Bauer, Security Editor, Linux Journal
“Richard
Thieme is one of the rare people who 'gets it' regarding the
relationship between networking, technology, and people. Always
provocative and interesting, Richard's voice is one I heed.” - Marcus
Ranum
“To
the religion scholar and cyber-philosopher Richard Thieme, hackers
are in the tradition of men like da Vinci and Machiavelli who
decoded the heavens, the human body, the government body. It's
no accident that Thieme is a sought after speaker at gatherings
of hackers, phreakers, and intelligence agents.” - Neue Zürcher
Zeitung
“Thank you Richard – it is simply beautiful ... your
words ... I feel somehow some of my questions about life have been
shared – and answered.”
See Ming, a reader in Malaysia
“Your
writing is inspirational. If I had the power, I would dub thee
a cybershaman.” -
Adrianne Arendse, a reader in Cape Town, South Africa
“You
come walk with me in the mud, my friend.” -
Sushma Sharma, a reader in Bombay, India
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