"This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud." 

       "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."

I wasn't born yet when Lloyd Blankenship wrote the Hacker's Manifesto shortly after his arrest. But I remember I was in my teens reading it from a dusty photocopy of Phrack Issue #7 dated 25 Sep 1986.