I am often asked why I don't pass on to young people what I have accomplished over the years. Actually, I would like very much to do so. Ninety-nine percent of those who worked as my assistant directors have now become directors in their own right. But I don't think any of them took the trouble to learn the most important things.

Perhaps it is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

If a meaningless person says something is meaningless, that's probably proof that it isn't meaningless; and if a boring person says something is boring, that's…

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

'I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that's going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn some…

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

'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.' (2…