Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

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.

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

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

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased

Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have.

The path leading to stability is always opened to the sons of God

He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.

A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.