The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

I do engineering, not religion.

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work.

Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.

It's easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it's not as tempting or easy to just give up.

I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never paid too much attention to the opinion of critics.

I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.

Our vision is beclouded and the pathway of our progress is obstructed until we come to know that god can and does express as Good in every person and every situation.

It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.