I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

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.

Seek your own answers in life, and not what others dictate to you.

It is pointless to complain about the problems of the world as long as we continue contributing to them.

I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame, and I cannot fight it, I must be consumed.

You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.

The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.

When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always – do it anyway.

You are strangely troublesome.