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.

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.

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.

Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks.

Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love and something to hope for.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.

It's love that makes the world go round.

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.