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Wietse Venema

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons."

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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."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Defect-free software does not exist."
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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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"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
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"Sure, but competition is good for the user."
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