Familiar things happen, and mankind does not
bother about them. It requires a very unusual
mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious
- Alfred North Whitehead
(1861-1947)
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar
doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
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.
Then they want a magic pill to make them better
all at once, without the effort. And, by the way,
they claim loudly that their condition really
isn't their fault-it was genetics, or the tobacco
companies, or McDonald's that was to blame. And
they blame us for not taking better care of them.
Does this sound familiar?
- Eugene Spafford
director of Purdue University's CERIAS center, in his acceptance speech for the NISSC National Computer Systems Security Award.
Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with
few, friend to one, enemy to none
- Benjamin Franklin
A new scientific truth does not triumph by
convincing its opponents and making them see the
light, but rather because its opponents eventually
die, and a new generation grows up that is
familiar with it.
- Max Planck
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