People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Beso me without desire so I may hear her coo, that grew in you

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

I think Democrats are complacent. They think that Russia is going to save us. Bob Mueller is going to come in with a report.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.