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"It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors."
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Personal Development
"That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites."
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Personal Development
"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."
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Personal Development
"Fortune favors the prepared mind."
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"Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software."
People
"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."
Mistake
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
Business
"I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on."
Work
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
Challenge
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"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."
Work
"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."
Experience
"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."
People
"Sure, but competition is good for the user."
Competition
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