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| The Hacker's Manifesto
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. | | |
| -Everyone is entitled to be stupid, butyou are abusing the privelege
-Don't steal. The government hates competition.
-Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them
-Ever stop to think...and forget to start again?
-"Never Underestimate The Power Of Stupid People In Large Groups"
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
"To truly understand someone, look beyond the wall they keep up."
"To know, you must observe, to observe you must listen, to listen you must not talk."
-"Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die"
-War is not about who is right, it is about who is left.
-"Learn to be independent, so that if anyone should leave your life, you could go on without them."
-Our enemies are sacred because they make us strong
-"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
-Experience: A name we give to our mistakes.
-Fame: Chiefly a matter of dying at the right moment.
-"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary."
-Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise
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| -It's not that I'm lazy--I just don't care
-I can resist everything except temptation
-Thinking is a powerful thing. Power is dangerous. Im not allowed to play with dangerous things, therefore I dont think.
-When you have the right hammer, everything looks like a nail.
-I'm not suffering from insanity, I'm enjoying it
-Imagination is more important than knowledge - albert einstein
-The more you know about the world, the universe, and everything, the more you don't. Only a fool thinks he knows enough.
-it's true, no man is an island. but if you tie a bunch of dead guys together they make a pretty good raft
-good judgement comes from experience and often experience comes from bad judgement
-success is 99% failure
-"there are only two infinte things, the universe and humen stupidity and im not sure about the universe"-albert einstein
-"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
-Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen
-A child can not see how the old think but the old are truely at fault if they forget how it is to be young.
-why is everyone so scared of the world ending when it ends we will all
be dead so why care when no one will be alive to care after it
-It's only funny until someone gets hurt...then it's hillarious
-If practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, why practice??
-for those without religion...you live to die
-those who fear many things are foolish, but those who fear nothing are just as foolish
-Isn't it scary that the word "therapist" is the same as the words "the" and "rapist" put together
-Cussing is a sign of ignorance and stupidity.... thats why i cuss all the time
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| -"If Electricity is for Electron then Morality is for MORONS."
-"Don't feel sorry for me, because i won't feel sorry for you!"
-"Love can't fix everything."
-"Rule #1: Always let the enemy underestimate you."
-"To be a good leader, you must be an expert at control and a master of manipulation, as well being very persuasive."
-"Those who can't adapt, generally can't survive."
-"Sometimes the only hope of not losing yourself is to do the right thing and risk losing someone you love."
-"Don't push away the people you care about. It's not a good way to live."
-"Love is like fire, it can warm your heart, or burn you and leave a permanent scar."
-"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
- Arguing on the Internet is like running in the Special Olympics: Even if you win you're still retarded.
- You can fall from the sky.
You can fall from a tree.
But the best way to fall.
Is in love with me.
"The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy"
"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories"
Reality bites with a variety of sizes of teeth
-"You said you read me like a book; but the pages are all torn and frayed"
-"I think of my friends as obstacles. After I overcome this obstacle I will be invicible." | | |
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