"Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk."

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Source : NANOG mailing list, 2002.

Paul Vixie

#Risk Quotes #Records Quotes #Youth Quotes

“Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.”

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.72, Penguin
“To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.”
“Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.”

Source : "The Magnificent Mitscher". Book by Theodore Taylor, 1954.
“I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes away for a while!”
“People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.”
“You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,'" he said. "It's that simple.”
“In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.”

Source : Giorgio Vasari (1963). “The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects”, London : Dent ; New York : Dutton
“You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.”

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