
Category: Quotes


Edmund Burke “Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower “We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.”

Gene Spafford “Those of us in security are very much like heart doctors — cardiologists. Our patients know that lack of exercise, too much dietary fat, and smoking are all bad for them. But they will continue to smoke, and eat fried foods, and practice being couch potatoes until they have their infarction….”

Bruce Schneier “If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can’t get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different”

Whitfield Diffie “The decision we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow”
