"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."

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"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."

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"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Work, God, Nothing

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Work, Jokes

"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Work, Liberty, Practice

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

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"After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Work, Boss, Success, Retirement, Life

"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Work, Theory, Values, Meaning

"At home I am a man, at work I am a machine."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Work, Man, Home, Machine

"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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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."

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"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."

Business

"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."

Favors

"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."

Computer

"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."

Mistake

"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."

Acceptance

"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."

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"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

"After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results."

"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."

"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on."

"At home I am a man, at work I am a machine."

"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."

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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."

"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."

"Defect-free software does not exist."

"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."

"Sure, but competition is good for the user."

"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."

"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."

"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."