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Wietse Venema

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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Donna Grant

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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Donna Grant

"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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Donna Grant

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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Donna Grant

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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Donna Grant

"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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Donna Grant

"I am born to win."

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Donna Grant

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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Donna Grant

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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Wietse Venema
"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."

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

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Wietse Venema
"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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Wietse Venema
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."

Mail

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

Acceptance

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Wietse Venema
"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

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Wietse Venema
"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."

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Wietse Venema
"I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot."

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Wietse Venema
"Defect-free software does not exist."

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