Neal Stephenson:

Hackworth was a forger, Dr. X was a honer. The distinction was at least as old as the digital computer. Forgers created a new technology and then forged on to the next project, having explored only the outlines of its potential. Honers got less respect because they appeared to sit still technologically, playing around with systems that were no longer start, hacking them for all they were worth, getting them to do things the forgers had never envisioned.

The Local:

The missile system carried out "unexplained" orders. It was not immediately clear when these orders were carried out and what they were.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai:

As part of Hacking Team's "crisis procedure," it could have killed their [customers'] operations remotely. The company, in fact, has "a backdoor" into every customer's software, giving it the ability to suspend it or shut it down -- something that even customers aren't told about.

Adriel Desautels:

HackingTeam is just one example of why the zero-day exploit market needs to be thoughtfully regulated.

Angela Simpson:

The multistakeholder process on vulnerability research and disclosure we announce today is a small, but important, piece of the puzzle.

Malcolm Gladwell:

If things go wrong with a puzzle, identifying the culprit is easy: it's the person who withheld information. Mysteries, though, are a lot murkier: sometimes the information we've been given is inadequate, and sometimes we aren't very smart about making sense of what we've been given, and sometimes the question itself cannot be answered. Puzzles come to satisfying conclusions. Mysteries often don't.

Freeman Dyson:

The truths of science are so profoundly concealed that the only thing we can really be sure of is that much of what we expect to happen won't come to pass.