"I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways - securing software - and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built."

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Source : "U.S. Military Helps Fund Calgary Hacker". Interview with David Akin, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 06, 2003.

Theo de Raadt

#Mean Quotes #Trying Quotes #Half Quotes

“I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?”
“I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.”
“God is not an elusive dream or a phantom to chase, but a divine person to know. He does not avoid us, but seeks us. When we seek Him, the contact is instantaneous.”
“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.”
“All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.”
“At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.”
“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.”

Source : James Monroe, Ian Elliot, United States. President (1817-1825 : Monroe) (1969). “James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns
“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”

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