Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell.

The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

Note that if I can get you to su and say something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.

With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.

Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.

Everyone connected to the internet acts globally. it is wildly foolish to think locally.