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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."
"The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk."
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"
"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."
"I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players."
Bugs,
"Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."
"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."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
"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."
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
"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."
"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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