A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
— Robert Graves
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
— Robert Graves
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. — James Thurber
The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time. — Bruce Schneier
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. — Kahlil Gibran
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. — George Bernard Shaw
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. — Edmund Burke
The mantra of any good security engineer is: 'Security is a not a product, but a process.' It's more than designing strong cryptography into a system; it's designing the entire system such that all security measures, including cryptography, work together. — Bruce Schneier
Politically Correct Virus: Doesn't refer to itself as a virus - instead, refers to itself as an "electronic microorganism." — Mark Kaye
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. — Stephen Hawking
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to. — Dennis Miller
Securing a computer system has traditionally been a battle of wits: the penetrator tries to find the holes, and the designer tries to close them. — Gosser
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. — Mitch Ratliff
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. — Niccolo Machiavelli
"You shouldn't overestimate the I.Q. of crooks." — NYT: Stuart A. Baker, General Counsel for the NSA, explained why crooks and terrorists who are smart enough to use data encryption would be stupid enough to choose the U.S. Government's compromised data encryption standard.
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