Paul Gallico Quotes
You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.
Gallico, Paul. Farewell to Sport. Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.
He was describing hackers. The term originally was used in the comptuer world to refer to a perso who had the tallent and the knowhow to enter anbd utilize computers when the did not have the specific permissions to do so. Many computer security experts refer to themjselves as hackes because they show computer managers where their vulnerabilities are. Others work for law enforcement, and some work for expionage agencies, Others are theives who use theior abilties to steal or commit fraud. Still other hackers see hacking as a sport and break into computers for the challange.
Paul William Gallico was an American novelist, short story and sports writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his most critically successful book, and for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation.
