"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."

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Source : "Kevin Mitnick, Former Fugitive Hacker, Laments How The Game Has Changed". Interview with Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.

Kevin Mitnick

#Intellectual Quotes #Curiosity Quotes #Hacking Quotes

“Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but canâ€™t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.”
“In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.131, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.”
“They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.”
“If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.”
“Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.”

Source : Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.55, Princeton University Press
“I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.”

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