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"However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions."
"This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended."
"In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems."
"I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise."
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
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