My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

There is no patch for stupidity.

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.

Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means it no longer controls our lives

The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.

The difference between a positive attitude and a negative attitude can be measured by its level of energy, both inwardly and outwardly.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.

I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.

That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.