Bruce Lowther

“His own professional journey, since then, could be seen as the single-minded pursuit of weird stuff, and the shedding, at every opportunity, of all responsibilities that didn’t qualify as such.”
― Neal Stephenson, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

“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

“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

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