Jasper Fforde Quotes

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

The difference between a hacker and consumer is a consumer says, "I wish it would work this way." A hacker says, "I've got a screwdriver and a few minutes.

I think it's a little premature to talk about response until we know exactly what happened, but we should know what happened. And we should know how to defend [against hackers attacks] ourselves without question.

Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on the computer.

Certainly we're going to do whatever that loaded word retaliate is, we're going to do everything we can in order to prevent all of this stuff [Hackers attacks] from happening ever again.

Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

I think cyber security, cyber warfare will be one of the biggest challenges facing the next president, because clearly we're facing at this point two different kinds of adversaries. There are the independent hacking groups that do it mostly for commercial reasons to try to steal information that they can use to make money.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

Hacking is very interesting. Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, you're not going to catch them.

The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.

A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.

I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

We have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is - it is a huge problem.

I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

[Hackers] did not stop. They - they came after us absolutely every day until the end of the election. They tried to hack into our system repeatedly.