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1. "It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate."
Author: Bob Barr
2. "While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm."
Author: Dorothy Denning
3. "While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality."
Author: Dorothy Denning
4. "Most hackers are young because young people tend to be adaptable. As long as you remain adaptable, you can always be a good hacker."
Author: Emmanuel Goldstein
5. "Dear 2600: Tell me how much one of your hackers would charge me to delete my criminal record from the Texas police database. [NAME DELETED] Well, we would start with erasing your latest crime, that of soliciting a minor to commit another crime. (Your request was read by a small child here in the office.) After you're all paid up on that, we will send out the bill for hiding your identity by not printing your real name, which you sent us like the meathead you apparently are. After that's all sorted, we can assemble our team of hackers, who sit around the office waiting for such lucrative opportunities as this to come along, and figure out even more ways to shake you down. It's what we do, after all. Just ask Fox News."
Author: Emmanuel Goldstein
6. "What hackers do is figure out technology and experiment with it in ways many people never imagined. They also have a strong desire to share this information with others and to explain it to people whose only qualification may be the desire to learn."
Author: Emmanuel Goldstein
7. "The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers."
Author: Eric S. Raymond
8. "Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires."
Author: Eric S. Raymond
9. "Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away."
Author: Esther Dyson
10. "For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market."
Author: Ethan Zuckerman
11. "If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security."
Author: Fred Durst
12. "Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving."
Author: Heather Brooke
13. "See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy."
Author: Jamie Zawinski
14. "I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus."
Author: Jasper Fforde
15. "Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses and this is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet. So catching him will be a breeze!"
Author: Keiko Nobumoto
16. "It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution."
Author: Ken Thompson
17. "Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon."
Author: Kevin Mitnick
18. "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."
Author: Kevin Mitnick
19. "Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion."
Author: Kevin Mitnick
20. "Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause."
Author: Kevin Mitnick
21. "Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map."
Author: Larry Wall
22. "We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of."
Author: Mark Zuckerberg

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Me gustan los ordenadores. Me gusta saber que cuando algo no funciona puedes apagar y encender de nuevo el ordenador; es una solución mágica. Creo que no estaría mal que ocurriera lo mismo con las personas, que cuando no entendieras a alguien, cuando algo fuera realmente extrano, pudieras reiniciar a esa persona, apagarla y encenderla de nuevo"
Author: Albert Espinosa

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