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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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"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!"

"I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail."

"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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"I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez."
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"In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me."

"It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking."
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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."


"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."


"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."


"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."


"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."


"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."
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