"Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are also large, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage, and they pollute the environment. It is astonishing that these devices continue to be manufactured and deployed. But they are sufficiently pervasive that we must design our protocols around their limitations.)" 

             -- Kaufman, Perlman, and Speciner quoted in Anderson's "Security Engineering"


A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
William S. Burroughs

Vote early and vote often.
Al Capone

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
Al Capone

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
Sir Winston Churchill

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Sir Winston Churchill