Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitimate jobs. I wasn't living on people's credit cards. I was living like a character out of a movie. It was performance art.

My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

People often turn around and charge up their credit cards again.

We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies.

If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.