A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
— Robert Graves
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
— Robert Graves
Like the death of a celebrity from a drug overdose, publicized data loss incidents remind us that we should probably do something about taking better care of our data. But we usually don't, because we quickly remind ourselves that backups are boring as h***, and that it's shark week on Discovery.
— Nik Cubrilovic
(TechCrunch.com, October 10, 2008)
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. — Albert Einstein
If your personnel do not know or understand how to maintain confidentiality of information, or how to secure it appropriately, not only do you risk having one of your most valuable business assets (information) mishandled, inappropriately used, or obtained by unauthorized persons, but you also risk being in non-compliance of a growing number of laws and regulations that require certain types of information security and privacy awareness and training activities. You also risk damaging another valuable asset, corporate reputation. — Rebecca Herold, "Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program" 2005
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. — Arnold Glascow
People don't react to reality; they react to their perceptions of reality. — human psychology truism
As any farmer will tell you, only a fool lets a fox guard the henhouse door. — proverb
Ways may someday be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. — Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. — C. S. Lewis
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. — Clarence S. Darrow
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. — Justice Hugo Black
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. — David Brin
Security in IT is like locking your house or car – it doesn't stop the bad guys, but if it's good enough they may move on to an easier target. — Paul Herbka
Cyberwarfare specialists cautioned this week that the Internet was effectively a “wilderness of mirrors,” and that attributing the source of cyberattacks and other kinds of exploitation is difficult at best and sometimes impossible. Despite the initial assertions and rumors that North Korea was behind the attacks and slight evidence that the programmer had some familiarity with South Korean software, the consensus of most computer security specialists is that the attackers could be located anywhere in the world. — John Markoff (NY Times writer)
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