"As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool."

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Source : "An Hour with Kevin Mitnick, Part 2". Interview with Vince Barnes, www.esecurityplanet.com. April 7, 2004.

Kevin Mitnick

#School Quotes #Boys Quotes #Hacking Quotes

“I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.”
“I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.”
“I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)”
“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.”
“That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.”
“CO2 emissions have been increasing, but the rise in air temperature stopped around 2001. Climate change is due in large part to naturally occurring oscillations.”
“I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.”
“A few people have said I should let you win”

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