Gene Spafford Quotes

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.

While travelling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.

People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted.

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.