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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Then all the charm Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other.

The best way to transform a society is to empower the women of that society.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.

No guilt or anger or longing changes that.

Does drinking make you wittier? One might as well ask if witting makes you drinkier, which it may.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

Donald Trump is unpredictable.