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"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
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"I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can."
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"It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking."
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"In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me."
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"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
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"I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously."
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"I get mail; therefore I am."
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"Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!"
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"I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail."
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"And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done."
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"I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible."
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"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."
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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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"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
"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
"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."
Life
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
Business
"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."
People
"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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"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
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"Defect-free software does not exist."
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