Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.

The internet is not for sissies.

Note that if I can get you to su and say something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.

The Internet is no longer the kind of thing where only six guys in the world can build it. Now, you can write a couple of checks and get one of your own.

The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

Personally i prefer the MX RR and a stylized name, but i was trying to solve the problem rather than create an industry.

Everyone connected to the internet acts globally. it is wildly foolish to think locally.

Fragmentation is like classful addressing - an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed.

With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.

You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.

What I tend to tell my students is, “When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable.”

If a relationship is built on sexuality, it won't last long.