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"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."
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
"Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls."
"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."
"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."
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
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