Bruce Lowther

“You’re just clever enough to be stupider than if you weren’t clever at all,”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde

“But there was one area in which hackers were routinely underestimated, and that was lock picking. For them, picking locks was a nice way to kick back and relax after a long day of doing pen tests on corporate networks.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde

“Is it a peaceful and perfect society if you don’t see the filth? If you don’t look too hard? Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what’s underneath.”
― Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion

“People who watched too many movies about hackers had all sorts of ludicrous ideas about what they were capable of. In general, they hugely overestimated hackers’ ability to do certain things. But there was one area in which hackers were routinely underestimated, and that was lock picking. For them, picking locks was a nice way to kick back and relax after a long day of doing pen tests on corporate networks.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde