I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

When in doubt, use brute force.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.