Defect-free software does not exist.

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.

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.

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.

I am obviously not a patient person.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

I tend to like things that already exist.

Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.