"You can have the best computer set-up in the world but, if someone can convince a member of staff to let them in, all that is useless. The weakest link in any security chain is always human."
- Kevin Mitnick in "The hacker's tale: an interview with Kevin Mitnick"
An interview with the Financial Times
Published October 26, 2002
Oct 26, 2011
Memorable Interview: Kevin Mitnick
Oct 6, 2011
October 6, 1997
"I'd shut [Apple] down and give the money back to the shareholders."- Michael S. Dell, CEO of Dell Computer, in response to being asked at a Gartner Group symposium what he would do if he woke up in the body of Steve Jobs.
Oct 1, 2011
October 1, 2002
"You can't stop technology. Even if they succeed in shutting down those particular services, new services will spring up. It's the nature of the Internet."- Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
"Napster creator ponders his legacy" by Nick Wingfield, October 1, 2002.
Sep 11, 2011
September 11, 1773
"There never was a good war or bad peace."- Benjamin Franklin
Sep 10, 2011
July 10, 1997
"Steve Jobs is not a credible CEO or anything else for Apple. The worst thing would be to appoint Steve CEO, except that it would give Steve the opportunity to preside over both Apple's birth and death."- David Coursey (Industry commentator) in the San Jose Mercury News, July 10, 1997.
Jul 11, 2011
July 11, 1990
"Speech is speech. It doesn't matter if it is words on paper or bits on bytes."- John Perry Barlow (EFF Founder) in an interview with the San Francisco Examiner, July 11, 1990.
Jun 11, 2011
June 11, 1984
The Mac is the first computer good enough to be criticized. ... The IBM PC is beneath comment. It's been known for 12 years how to do a good-looking display and IBM didn't put one on its machine. You can't have any favorable comment beyond that. That is the ultimate in know-nothingness.- Alan Kay (Apple Fellow) in an interview with InfoWorld, June 11, 1984.
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