"One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms."

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Source : "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

Fernando J. Corbato

#Interaction With Others Quotes #Bored Quotes #Trying Quotes

“A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!”
“A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.”
“With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.”
“I try not to sleep with every girl I see, but it's hard!”
“People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.”
“I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.”

Source : Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.12, Pan Macmillan
“Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.”

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