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

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.

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.

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

If you posses enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find that you are not alone.

I believe in my sacred self.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.

You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.

You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.

I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.

I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.