20 Quotes by Roger Thompson

Without some testing standards, marketers can make whatever claims they like, and can find a tester to help them prove it.

When macro viruses first came on the scene, most viruses were still written in assembly language or machine code, ... And they were spread by physically transporting infected floppies from one machine to another. In those days, we recommended that you upgrade your anti-virus software every two to three months.

Is it worth it? Ultimately that's a question the public has to determine. I don't think there's anyone in the Northwest who doesn't want to save the salmon. As a public utility, we take our environmental stewardship very seriously.

I wanted to do a shutdown immediately because we felt like this was an extreme. It's not like a child had gotten out of the building and was in the playground. These kids had disappeared.

Sony's motives are reasonable from their point of view, but it's a terrible security hole.

This is one of the most impressive restoration projects seen in the Northwest.

It was a way to work with the tribe to restore a greater number of fish in that river system. And it's the least work-intensive method. Instead of catching the fish and then hauling them by truck over land, the fish move themselves up and over the dam to the habitat beyond.

It's not the viruses that you attack, it's the infection method. The problem is that you have 10,000 programmers in Redmond designing for functionality and not security.

It's simply impossible for application vendors to develop instant fixes for newly discovered exploits. It takes weeks or months for application vendors to release a patch because it must be thoroughly tested to ensure it doesn't adversely affect the application or any other application that might be installed on the user's system.