Dan Farmer Quotes & Sayings

“I'm bisexual.”

“Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.”

“Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.”

“If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.”

“Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.”

“I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.”

“Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.”

“People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.”

“I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.”

“I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.”