I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.
Businesses should absolutely set aside funding in their budgets for security consultants. Unless there is an expert on staff, and there usually is not, it needs to be outsourced.
Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.
I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. I was like James Bond behind the computer. I was just having a blast.
When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify his identity, just say no.
Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.
A lot of individuals out there carry a lot of proprietary information on their mobile devices, and they're not protected. It's a very target-rich environment.
A series of howls and war cries echoed through the camp....The werewolves and Japanese had attacked." -pg.353 Forbidden Nights with a Vampire Kerrelyn Sparks
We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.
The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.
If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don't find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe.
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.
Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.
The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.
When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile.
You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.
And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.
