Quotes About Computer Viruses

#1. I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.

Kevin Mitnick

#2. If we are lucky, they were never retarded enough to create computer viruses and will have no such things as firewalls and security like we have. If they have never experienced a full blown computer failure we'll introduce them to the concept

Thomas Wilson

#3. In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

Dennis Miller

#4. Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.

Richard Dawkins

#5. Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.

Gene Spafford

#6. I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Stephen Hawking

#7. Computer viruses are alive.

Stephen Hawking

#8. In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.

Martin Rees

#9. Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

Attila The Hun

#10. We've created life in our own image.

Stephen Hawking

#11. I'm not as smart or talented as anyone around me. But they like me.

Amy Landecker

#12. You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.

Russell Freedman

#13. My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr.

Horton Foote

#14. Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. ... Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.

Erik Naggum

#15. Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

Russell Davenport

#16. The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.

Harold Urey

#17. We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back.

Shannon Hale

#18. A primary concern among Mac users, and a benefit to the hacking community, is the Mac owner mind-set that Macs aren't susceptible to viruses or attack. It is an interesting stance considering that the thing they are claiming to be naturally impervious from attack is, well, a computer!

Sean-Philip Oriyano

#19. Human reason is by nature architectonic."

Critique of Pure Reason

Kant

#20. The computer was the newest addition to the local library, and quickly had more viruses than the local whore house.

Giles Curtis

#21. Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.

Dave Barry

#22. As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just want to show issues from a different point of view. I want to show issues from a perspective that may not be highlighted.

Nicola Monaghan

#23. The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.

Tadeusz Borowski

#24. All babies look like currant buns to me.

Jojo Moyes