I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.

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.

To be so lonelyyou told yourself you liked to be this way& almost believed it was true.

I know I’m not supposed to say this, ” he said. “But I think I love you more than ever.”I took his hand and tried not to think about how happy his words made me.

A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.

Now you can start paying for it with money instead of blood.

There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend and fear.

Love is selfish yet a selfless feeling.

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.