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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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"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."
Mistake
"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."
Life
"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
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
Business
"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."
Computer
"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."
Acceptance
"At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years."
Time
"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
"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."
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"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
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"No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane."
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"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
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"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter."
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"Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers."
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"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."
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"While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed."
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"We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this."
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"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."
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"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many."
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"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
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