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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
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"This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended."


"I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot."


"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."


"I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on."


"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."


"Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls."
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