"Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people." — Bruce Schneier

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people. - Bruce Schneier

"Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people."

— Bruce Schneier

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40 Quotes by Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in…
Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information…
People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.
If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the…
Microsoft made a big deal about Windows NT getting a C2 security rating. They were much less forthcoming with the…
The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.
If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new…
The mantra of any good security engineer is: 'Security is a not a product, but a process.' It's more than…
The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is…
History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security…
Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security
People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

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More Amateurs Quotes

This quote is filed under Amateurs Quotes, one of 110 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. — Paul Cezanne
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close
The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
Jet lag is for amateurs. — Dick Clark
Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. — Charles Bukowski
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this… — Gerald Brenan
Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether. — Norman Mailer
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters,… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Amateurs hope. Professional work. — Garson Kanin
The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and… — Havelock Ellis

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