A Quote by Bruce Schneier

Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.

Bruce Schneier

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Attack Machines Only People Professionals Target

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Bruce Schneier
American - Scientist
Born: January 15, 1963

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Amanda Palmer

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

William O'Neil

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

Lasse Hallstrom

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Garson Kanin

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Francois Truffaut

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

Derek Bok

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

Robert Genn

On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

Margaret Drabble

It should be borne in mind that the target is always trying to shift responsibility to get out of being the target. There is a constant squirming and moving and strategy . . . on the part of the designated target. The forces for change must keep this in mind and pin that target down securely. If an organization permits responsibility to be diffused and distributed in a number of areas, attack becomes impossible.

Saul Alinsky

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

Bruce Schneier

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.

Chuck Palahniuk

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.

Freeman Dyson

Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.