"I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization."

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Source : Kevin Mitnick (2011). “Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker”, p.424, Hachette UK

Kevin Mitnick

#Differences Quotes #Gains Quotes #Hacking Quotes

“Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.”
“Think of the ills from which you are exempt.”
“Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book!”

Source : Twitter post from May 25, 2013
“I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.”
“For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.”
“Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.”

Source : Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
“Sometimes to win, you have to change the game.”

Source : J. B. Bernstein (2014). “Million Dollar Arm: Sometimes to Win, You Have to Change the Game”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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