Quotes and Definitions

• About Facts
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
- John Maynard Keynes

• Hardware vs Software
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.

• Hardware vs Software
When people say something in software or hardware can't be done, they are being unrealistic.
What they mean is they can see no way it can be done.
- Hacking expert, David Levy

• Mechanical Engineers vs Civil Engineers?
  
What is the difference between Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers? Mechanical Engineers build weapons, Civil Engineers build targets.

• Customer End-Point Security:
  
It’s Not Your Fault, But It Is Your Problem
- Chris Rouland

• Security
  
Security - Ingnoring reality is not an effective way to get healthier, or smarter, or safer, even though it might temporarily make you feel better.
- Bruce Schneier

• Complex Systems
  
A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked perfectly.
- Unknown Source

• Complex Systems: about the frequency of extreme events
  
In this view, a great earthquake is just an earthquake that started small ... and did not stop.
- Didier Sornette, arXiv:0707.2194v1 p.15

• Programming
  
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.
- Rich Cook