Moxie Marlinspike:

I really started thinking about, 'How do I be more in touch with reality?'

Decius:

If you've got the right perspective on things, the fact that you can wash dishes is totally amazing.

Colin Powell:

Be careful what you choose. You may get it.

T. S. Eliot:

Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.

Ian Malcolm:

You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you want to sell it!

Peter G. Neumann:

There are more vulnerabilities than ever, more ways to exploit them than ever, and now the government wants to dumb everything down further.

Jen Ellis:

Export controls for intrusion technologies feel inevitable to me.

NTIA:

In mid-September, NTIA will convene the first multistakeholder meeting on security vulnerability research disclosure. The exact date and location are not yet set, but we expect to hold the meeting in the San Francisco Bay area.

Please complete the form below to express your interest in attending the September event in person or to participate remotely (the meeting will be webcast and we will provide a conference phone bridge). Your expression of intent will help us determine space requirements for the meeting and webcast technology requirements.

Trey Causey:

Data science is not simply a series of programs and tutorials that automatically make inferences from your data. Often times, what isn't in your data has significant implications for inference. Your software package isn't going to tell you what they are.

Chris Surdak:

Many "data scientists" are more "data manipulators," generating politically acceptable outputs that support a given agenda. Someone should do an analysis of the time and money being spent on trying to define what Big Data really means.

A contrarian's tweet:

Big Data, n.: the belief that any sufficiently large pile of s—-- contains a pony.

Chris Surdak:

If you're a CFO beware; there is nothing in the world more expensive than a software architect suffering from cluster-envy!

Envious Architect:

It's like, five racks! And it's got that really cool icon ... I wish I had that, but I don't have enough data to require it.

Rebecca Brock:

People say to me, "Whatever it takes." I tell them, It's going to take everything.

Samantha Power:

There are great benefits to connectedness, but we haven't wrapped our minds around the costs.

Austin Kleon:

I have always found that the key to a beautiful life is low overhead and no debt.

Graham Cluley:

Apparently, Ford has identified a software bug on a number of its car models that means drivers may not be able to turn off the engine, even if they remove the ignition key.

Tod Beardsley, research manager at Rapid7:

I'd pretend to be SwiftKey, and your phone would have no way of knowing the difference because your phone does no verification [before downloading the update].

Ryan Welton:

Unfortunately, the flawed keyboard app can't be uninstalled or disabled.

Daniel Genkin et al:

The setup is compact and can operate untethered; it can be easily concealed, e.g., inside pita bread.

Peter Pi:

One of the Flash exploits is described by Hacking Team as "the most beautiful Flash bug for the last four years."

Michael Hayden:

The next sound you hear will not be a digital bugle signaling the arrival of the digital cavalry to come save the day. The government ain't coming.

George Lucas:

Look around you. Ideas are everywhere.

Richard Florida:

Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi told me that the great physicist Freeman Dyson would often just sit in his office with his door open. To the casual observer, it appeared that he was doing nothing. But in fact Dyson was searching for the stimulation of interesting hallway conversation. After a week or two of absorbing the buzz, he would retreat behind closed doors to work alone on a new discovery.

Liz Danzico:

I need idle time in equal proportion to planned time; leaving time for the unplanned, and making sure there's enough time for a bit of nothing. It's this space that makes the planned more worthwhile.

David Lynch:

Ideas are like fish. Originality is just the ideas you caught.

Victor Hwang:

There is a natural power at the edges of frontiers. When you go fishing, the best places to drop your line are at the transition points, where light meets dark, shallow meets deep, fast meets slow. The same is true for human life. When you go searching for your fortune in life, look for those transition points. That's the frontier.

Henry Grabar:

The mapping powerhouse Rand McNally started selling maps in order to boost their main business, which was printing tickets for railroads. Maps didn't just fulfill needs; they created them.

Alastair Humphreys:

That was the only hard part, really. Just going. Committing. Making it happen.

Charles Simic:

Even today, a kind of exhilaration comes over me roaming an unfamiliar city, a fear of being lost and a secret hope that I am. In the meantime, how much more alive I feel, how much more readily my eyes notice things and how much better my mind and imagination work.

Raffi Khatchadourian:

The universe is being built in an old two-story building, in the town of Guildford, half an hour by train from London. About a dozen people are working on it. They are scheduled to finish at the end of this year.

...

Sean Murray stopped at a star cluster and admired its density. Finally, overcoming his hesitancy, he picked a destination. "I can't promise if this is going to be interesting," he said. The map vanished. He was back in his cockpit. His hyperdrive kicked on. Then all of space blurred, and the ship hurtled into the unknown.

Michael McCaul:

I commend our law enforcement and intelligence professionals for disrupting so many plots recently, but we cannot rely on our defenses alone.

Joseph Menn:

Jim Lewis, an advisor to the U.S. government on cybersecurity issues and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said there are limitations to cyber offense.

John Prisco:

The reality is that cybersecurity is a corrupt industry that needs bad guys to stay lucrative. Major security technology vendors are running a billion dollar con by selling software that they know won't work.

Thomas Fuentes:

Keep Fear Alive. Keep it alive.

Jeff Atwood:

A ransomware culture ... does not feel very far off ...

Robert M. Lee:

Accurate information sharing is important for developing the appropriate case-studies and lessons learned to drive better defenses and resource investments.

Shane Harris:

The FBI said it was sending the alert again because of concerns that not all companies had received it the first time. Apparently, some of their email filters weren't configured to let the FBI message through.

Catherine Zimmer:

Finding it increasingly impossible to recognize and affectively react only to the articulations of each missive, I respond instead to the cacophonous noise of the whole damn thing. That noise is now constant, while its volume ebbs and flows with the rhythms of the work year. As the only constant, email becomes an end in itself. Email never goes away. Email is an asshole.

Once I send an email, I can do nothing further until someone sends an email back, and thus in a sense, sending that email became a task in itself, a task now completed. More and more it is just a game of hot potato with everyone supposedly moving the task forward by getting it off their desk and onto someone else's, via email.

JJ Thompson, CEO of Rook Security:

[Safeguarding fiber-optic telecommunications lines] is a massive challenge for municipalities, governments and Corporate America to deal with.

Jeremiah Grossman:

The truth is organizations are spending an incredible amount of money on security companies that can't guarantee their services.

An unnamed "influencer":

If everyone is getting "hacked" our cybersecurity strategy is not working.

Robert Graham:

CyberUL is a dumb idea. It's the Vogon approach to the problem. It imagines that security comes from a moral weakness that could be solved by getting "serious" about the problem.

SQLi, phishing, bad passwords, and lack of patches are the Four Horseman of the cybersecurity apocalypse, not software quality. Unless you are addressing those four things, then you are doing essentially nothing to solve the problem.