advice from the past

[smb at cs.columbia.edu (Steven M. Bellovin)]

While preparing a lecture for my OS class, I stumbled on this essay by
Peter Neumann: http://www.multicians.org/pgn-motherhood.html
This is advice very much worth heeding, more than 35 years later.  I
think very few people remember this paper, which of course is one point
it made: "We don't read. Very few system developers are familiar with
work done outside of their own project."

                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb