I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.

Satan impregnated my mother one lovely spring morning. We didn’t have the heart to tell my father.

The world needs someone they can admire from a distance

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

We have to leave!" I said to Vlad. "Now." "Run, Forest, run!" Vlad mocked. "Stow it, Drac," I snapped

The most memorably photos are layered, in good light, and have something really ineresting going on in them. If you can get all three elements into a single frame, now you're talking.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

If an opponent won't watch you bet, then you probably shouldn't.

She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.

For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.