"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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"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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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

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"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."

Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist

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Colin Greenwood, British Musician

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Jonathan Shapiro, South African Cartoonist

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Norman Ralph Augustine, American Author

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

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"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."

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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."

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

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"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

"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."

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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."

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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

"I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer."

"It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers."

"The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality."

"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."

"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."

"In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator."

"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"

"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"

"On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds."

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

"Defect-free software does not exist."

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"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."

"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."

"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."