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.

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.

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.

We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines.

I had to learnto sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.

A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.