Money won is always better than money earned.
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.
The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want [. . . ] Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic. The press helps every time it writes scare stories about the plot and the threat. And if we're terrified, and we share that fear, we help.
The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.
I tell people if it's in the news don't worry about it. Because by definition news is something that almost never happens.
if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.
Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled.
Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he holds back. I hope. . . I believe it is because he wishes to mate me properly first, in ceremony. " Payne felt the awful weight of premonition. "Beware, sister. You are a gentle soul. " Layla got to her feet, her smile now saddened. "Yes, I am. But I would rather my heart be broken than unopened and I know that one must ask if one is to receive.
I just like working with smart people.