Matt Mullenweg Quotes

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock!

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.

The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare.

There are security risks not only from information falling into the wrong hands, but also from information failing to find its way into the right hands. The government’s current approach to protecting classified information does not recognize this risk from failing to share

I've worked on products where they go down in the middle of the night, and no one notices. You get the 'site down' notice, but it doesn't matter.

If the leaks continue, we are strong as our weakest link. And I'll say it a little differently in a pun. We're strong as our weakest leak.

A long time ago, we had to build interfaces to connect with other companies, and I thought that was a great idea. The company had to pay a lot of money to build it and basically launched it, but our whole operating system almost broke. So, we couldn't continue it. In the end, I had to go on the train to Paris to explain that I had spent millions.

The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

We will stop 99 per cent of the attacks. But one per cent of attacks might get through and that is what I am saying.

A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.

It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.

It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.

Incredibly, hackers were able to obtain at least 20 million identities of people who under FBI background and were under FBI background investigations.

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?" Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study" Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.

Security will produce danger.