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“The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.”

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Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.

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

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When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

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People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation…

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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the…

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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

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Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

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

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People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation…

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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.

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But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that…

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People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry audience member…

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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself.…

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I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most…

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Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

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