Great respect for alien intelligence
Schneier on computer security people:
Security engineering, especially in this third wave, requires you to think differently. You need to figure out not how something works, but how something can be made to not work. You have to imagine an intelligent and malicious adversary inside your system (the "Satan" of Satan's computer), constantly trying new ways to subvert it. You have to think like an alien.As the late great science fiction editor John W. Campbell, said: "An alien thinks as well as a human, but not like a human." Computer security is a lot like that.
Warren Buffett on investing simply:
"If Martian were to to observe the activity of human beings for many many years, they would not understand what these humans were doing. They are digging the gold out from the ground, proccess them and put them in the vaults and never touch them again."He only wants to invest in companies with businesses that Martian could understand.
I know one thing with these new skillset requirements, I have to advise my clients to revisit their outsourcing contracts