“data files aren’t executable, and viruses have to be executed. It’s safest to say that viruses hide only in executable program files.”
“If the virus that infected your computer deleted one or more of your files, and you don’t have copies of those files elsewhere, they may be irretrievably gone”
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
“Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. ”
“The House of Saud had executed Juhayman. Now they were making his program government policy.”
“Good programming, like good books, asks a little more of the viewer. But no executive today will risk having the viewer bored for even a minute.”