Dan Kaminsky

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.

Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.