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

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.

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.

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

Patience is the blue vitriol to control the fungal emotions of life

If the moon faerie became like the sun faerie, there would be eternal day and if the sun faerie became like the moon faerie, it would be pitch dark. Therefore you balance each other out. Do you see?

He traveled the lowland and climbed the mountains

Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.

And I've always loved playing solo.

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.

Fox succeeds because it's entertaining. It's like a rightwing freak show.

For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.