Marcus Ranum Quotes

#1. The nations, of course, that are most at risk of a destructive digital attack are the ones with the greatest connectivity. Marcus Ranum, one of the early innovators of the computer firewall, called Stuxnet 'a stone thrown by people who live in a glass house'.

Kim Zetter

#2. Too much change is as destructive as too little. Only at the edge of chaos can complex systems flourish.

Michael Crichton

#3. The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

Gregory Maguire

#4. I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression.

Sharon E. Rainey

#5. My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.

Betty Who

#6. The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

Philip Warren Anderson

#7. One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy."

Marcus J. Ranum

#8. Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.

Wendell Berry

#9. If I see a live show and it doesn't have the aspect of danger where it could potentially go wrong, it's not that interesting to me.

Andrew Wyatt

#10. Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

Valerie Jarrett

#11. It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.

Jim Saxton

#12. We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#13. All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

Jacques Pepin

#14. There was water and waves all around. They ran towered the shore, and made way for the boat as it ran through. At the back of the boat, water squirted out and some of it was white.
It was magical.

Jesse Haubert

#15. I used to think love could save anything, but it can't if the vessel's cracked.

Lorna Landvik

#16. Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that you're guaranteed fairness. And three: there's only right and wrong.

Sandy Blair