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Jude Milhon Quotes

1939–2003 United States

Jude Milhon (March 12, 1939 – July 19, 2003), also known as St. Jude, was an American computer scientist, hacker, free speech activist, and one of the founders of Community Memory, the first public computerized bulletin board system.

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Jude's mugshot from her civil rights days.

Hacking is the clever circumvention of imposed limits, whether imposed by your government, your IP server, your own personality, or the laws of physics.

If we can't have sanity, we can fake it with humor. Humor gives you the same distance from the situation, the same metaview, only laughing is easier than sanity and possibly more fun.

I hate this waaaah-I'm-a-poor-sensitive-weak-woman-protect-me shit. This kind of stuff generates more contempt for women. So fuck niceness!

Interview in Wired (1995)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jude Milhon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.