Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.
Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.
The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.
The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want [. . . ] Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic. The press helps every time it writes scare stories about the plot and the threat. And if we're terrified, and we share that fear, we help.
The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.
I tell people if it's in the news don't worry about it. Because by definition news is something that almost never happens.
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
Happy are those who hear their detractions and can put them to mending.
How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.
In times of war, the law falls silent.