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"When faced with a hurdle then give it all you've got to jump over it because it can't be done in two stages."
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Personal Development
"Have they known scorn like youFive cellars down?"
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Personal Development
"For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path."
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Personal Development
"Nothing is easy, and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true."
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"It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist."
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"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."
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"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast."
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"Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?"
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"There is no pleasure in fighting a weak opponent."
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"Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners."
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"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
Business
"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."
People
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"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."
Experience
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
Running
"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."
Time
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
Challenge
"Defect-free software does not exist."
Software
"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
Machine
"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting."
Bugs
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