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"Defect-free software does not exist."
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"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
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"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
"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."
"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."
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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."
"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."
"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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