"Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.”"

"reuse is properly a process issue, and individual organizations need to decide whether they believe in its long-term …"

"The problem with traditional approaches to abstraction and encapsulation is that they aim at complete information hid…"

"reuse is easiest within a project instead of between them. A manager's success depends on performance on a given proj…"

"Habitability is the characteristic of source code that enables programmers, coders, bug-fixers, and people coming to …"

"One of the primary reasons that abstraction is overloved is that a completed program full of the right abstractions i…"

"The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to g…"

"Rule 1 of cryptanalysis: check for plaintext."

"Never underestimate the attention, risk, money, and time that an opponent will put into reading traffic."

"It is easy to run a secure computer system. You merely have to disconnect all dial-up connections and permit only dir…"