"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting."

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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, Physics, Safety, Software

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

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

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

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"I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise."

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"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

Donald Knuth, American Scientist

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"Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in."

Markus Wolf, German Public Servant

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"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."

Hugo Pratt, Italian Cartoonist

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"The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk."

Dave Foley, Canadian Comedian

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"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"

Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch Scientist

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"I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights."

John Hunter, British Surgeon

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"I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players."

Dimebag Darrell, American Musician

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"Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."

Cindy Crawford, American Model

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"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting."

Wietse Venema, Dutch Scientist

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"He wasn't Bugs without the gags we gave him."

Tex Avery, American Cartoonist

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