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"A virus is deadly because it can jump—actually slide right through the barriers everyone uses to control access to valuable information."

—Kenneth Weiss, Technical Director, Security Dynamics Technologies

"It's apparently going to be the game this year: to see who can come up with the best virus. We are all very vulnerable."

—Dennis Steinaur, Senior Security Specialist, National Bureau of Standards

"Viruses are really serious stuff for software publishers. As a publisher of software, we have to be sure that nothing gets onto our master disks, and as a business that uses Macintosh, we have to protect our information and our machines from infection."

—Charlie Jackson, President, Silicon Beach Software

"Some of the possibilities are so horrifying I hesitate to set them down at all."

—A. K. Dewdney, Professor, University of Western Ontario and creator of Core War

"We may be able to reprogram biological viruses to help rather than harm us."

—Dr. Expansion, Hacker to the MMMaaxx

"Ha! Ha! Ha! You're finished, all of you!! It won't be long before I'm in charge!! I can hardly wait. . . ."

—L. Luthor, Master Criminal of Planet Earth