The RISKS Digest Volume 33 Issue 78

Consider not only the verdict but also the positive things I’ve done in my life.” –Dennis Kozlowski, former executive of Tyco, who got 8.5-25 years in prison on 2005/09/19 for looting the company of $600 million “I never thought I’d be in this position. Look – it’s a pop-up, only as a commercial.” –Lyssa “Anarchism: The hard-headed realization, based on five thousand years of experience, babu88bd that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to rulers.” –Mark Stoval “The hallmark of someone who does not really believe in free speech is when they claim they do, followed by a ‘but’, followed by efforts to explain why the views they embrace should be permitted, while the views they despise should not be.” –Glenn Greenwald “Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.” –Richard Wilkins “I didn’t meet a single person I did not like. If the spectacle is well-wrought nobody knows nor needs to know who the stage-hands were. When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.” –Eric Hoffer “Dear Microsoft, my PC has 8 physical cores running at 4GHz each, I feel like it is up to the challenge of an interpreted programming language.” –Jason Lefkowitz “So, I know everyone’s afraid of looking like a crazy person, but I can’t believe the new UFO report from the Pentagon isn’t a bigger deal.