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One thread of quotes here warns that Computers left with weak or insecure access can have their passwords cracked no matter how strong.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Ale
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Nov 07, 2020

It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.

Quotes by Will Self

Computers
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Nov 07, 2020

When hackers have access to powerful computers that use brute force hacking, they can crack almost any password; even one user with insecure access being successfully hacked can result in a major breach.

Quotes by Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Ideas
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Nov 07, 2020

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Quotes by Simone Weil

Lasts
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Nov 07, 2020

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Nov 07, 2020

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Quotes by Havelock Ellis

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

Quotes by Eric Liu

Egyptian
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Nov 07, 2020

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Quotes by Alan Kay

Another thread argues, more philosophically, that force alone cannot kill ideas and that nothing built purely through raw strength truly endures.

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