Sheamus Quotes

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

My dad worked in the IT industry, although I haven't got a clue what he did. He always tells me but it just goes over my head.

Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

The system should treat all user input as sacred.

Data leaks are impossible to reverse, so the best strategy is to prevent intruders from having prolonged, unfettered access to the systems in the first place.

This is the system that we have. I didn’t make the system. This is the system that we have.

For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.

Security is job number one for Intel and our industry.

In any technology, one has to be very careful to ensure that it is good and has enough safeguards.

Safety is not just about trying really hard and being really careful. You have to design technology that makes it possible for a computer to be safe.

In 2010, I attended Prince George's Community College in hopes of transferring to The University of Maryland. My major was computer science, and the goal was to one day work as an I.T.

If you've got good systemising skills you can apply them to systems you aren't familiar with, and look for patterns.

Management does not know what a system is.

The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.