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

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

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

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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 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."

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

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

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

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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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"Defect-free software does not exist."

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"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."

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"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."

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