I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

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.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

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.

The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.

The more one comes to know men the more one comes to admire the dog.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

You never know if you have met your best friend in life yet. That still may be to come.

Fear first created the gods.

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

In a town full of phonies, I'm not afraid to be me.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.