So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

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.

The vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.

I just bought a Chihuahua. It's the dog for lazy people. You don't have to walk it. Just hold it out the window and squeeze.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

I think it's not just Republicans who would like to see the Senate run differently. I think there are a reasonable number of Democrats as well.

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

The beauty of service-type businesses is that if they're well run, you have huge excess cash flow.