I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

Defect-free software does not exist.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

Sure, but competition is good for the user.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]

I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.

For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.