Paul Vixie

“There is no 'cloud', it's just someone else's computer.”

“The Internet's gotten big because it's the world's biggest copying machine.”

“Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know.”

“The problem with DNS is that it was designed in a different era, for a different Internet.”

“You can't secure what you can't see.”

“We are not here to create a more just society. We are here to keep the trains running on time.”

“If you put a million monkeys at a million keyboards, one of them will eventually write a Java program. The rest of them will write Perl programs.”

“The only thing DNS promises is that you will get an answer. It doesn't promise that the answer will be right.”

“The speed of light is not just a good idea, it's the law. And you can't legislate against the law of physics.”

“Spam is the Rovian counterpart of denial of service.”

“My goal is to make the Internet a safer place for my children and for my grandchildren.”

“I believe in open source, and I believe in the community that builds it.”

“Security is a process, not a product.”

“The future of the Internet is in the hands of the people who are building it.”

“DNSSEC is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a secure Internet.”