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# A quote from 1986 that is more powerful today than ever
- URL: https://helpmonks.com/blog/a-quote-from-1986-that-is-more-powerful-today-than-ever/
- Published: 2015-09-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-06T20:06:55.000Z
- Description: > This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what
- Author: Nitai
- Tags: email marketing

> This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the *beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying* 
> *for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek* 
> *after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals.* 
> *You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.* 
>  
> *Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.*  
>  
> My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

[*The Conscience of a Hacker, also referred to as The Hacker Manifesto*](http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html?ref=helpmonks.com) *by The Mentor. Published by Phrack in Volume One, Issue 7, Phile 3 of 10\. Written on January 8, 1986*