Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.

The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.