The Adversary Quotes

“It’s … clear that we’re not as prepared as we should be, as a government or as a country… . Just as we failed in the past to invest in our physical infrastructure—our roads, our bridges, and rails—we’ve failed to invest in the security of our digital infrastructure… . We saw this in the disorganized response to [computer virus] Conficker. This status quo is no longer acceptable—not when there’s so much at stake. —President Barack Obama”
― Reece Hirsch, The Adversary

“represented a kind of perverted life-force that propagated until growth became just another form of destruction. Computer viruses and cancers were about a failure to follow norms.”
― Reece Hirsch, The Adversary

“Dave Silver was often preceded by the word “visionary” but, in fact, what made people like him compelling was their ability to be willfully blind to everything but their own view of the world.”
― Reece Hirsch, The Adversary

“At the root of this new feeling was the realization that he was going to die--but not today. I'm going to die. When you first grasp that concept as a child, it seems like a revelation that is both monumental and entirely irrelevant, like the fact that there are millions of stars like our sun scattered through the universe. As you move through your life, you say the words to yourself with varying degrees of conviction. When a car runs a red light and misses you by inches in an intersection, you say it and you mean it for a moment.”
― Reece Hirsch, The Adversary