Alexander Pope Quotes
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Pope, Alexander. An Essay on Man. J. Wilford, 1733, p. 31.
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.
Alexander Pope is seen as one of the greatest English poets and the foremost poet of the early 18th century. He is best known for satirical and discursive poetry, including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translation of Homer. After Shakespeare, Pope is the second-most quoted writer in English, according to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, some of his verses having become popular in common parlance (e. g., damning with faint praise). He is considered a master of the heroic couplet.
