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

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


"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."


"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."


"I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise."


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


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