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.

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 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.

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.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

hate is cancer of the soul!

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.