Mr. Metal's Quote Page
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This is my favorite Quote...I found it on the Web page called the land of
NoD. It's a WarEz page that was taken down and I think that this quote
should stay up....so here it is.
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested
in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"... Damn
kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three-piece psychology and
1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you
ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have
molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the
other kids, this crap they teach us bores me... Damn underachiever. They're
all alike. I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers
explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it.
"No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." Damn kid.
Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool.
It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it
up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks
I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... Damn
kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike. And then it happened...
a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin
through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from
the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it...
this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met
them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you
all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike... You
bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school
when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip
through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or
ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us
willing pupils, but those few are like
drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without
paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering
gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us
criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist
without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you
call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder,
cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet
we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of
judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My
crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me
for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this
individual,but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.
+++The Mentor+++
May the hacking community forever remember his words.
Here are other quotes...If you want a quote up here, mail me and I'll put it up and give you credit.
"Its all fun and games untill somebody gets hurt...Then it's fucking Hydterical"
"If thorns on a rose knew what they were protecting, they would be deadly"
"A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way."
"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."-SHAKESPEARE
"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end."
"A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains the greatest pain, It is to love, but love in vain."
"Love is ever sick, and yet is never dying; Loving is ever true, and yet is ever lying; Loving does doat in liking, and is mad in loathing; Love indeed is anything, yet indeed is nothing."
"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
"'Tis good to be off wi' the old love before you are on wi' the new."
"Doubt love, 'tis good, but 'tis not good to fear it; Love hurts them most that least of all come near it."
"If we judge of love by the majority of its results, it rather resembles hatred than friendship."
"Love withers under constraint: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve"
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