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"We are the mountains we must cross."
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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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"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."
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"Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge."
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"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
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"If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you!"
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"It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won."
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"I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?"
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"If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it."
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"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."
Computer
"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."
Favors
"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."
Computer
"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting."
Bugs
"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."
Work
"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."
Acceptance
"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."
Security
"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
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
Running
"Defect-free software does not exist."
Software
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