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

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"Business is the salt of life."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve."

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Business, Question, Customer, Understanding, Communication

"Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn't even know they had."

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"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."

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"Concerning Personal Branding and Social Media, Understand that attention came be gained or gamed but trust must be earned."

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"Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational."

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"One of the biggest problems with your average sales call is that the salesman doesn't know what he is trying to achieve. He hasn't worked out the end of the journey. So he sets off and just hopes he walks out with something."

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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."

Experience, Software, Writing

"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."

Security, Software

"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, Example, Safety, Security

"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, Interest, Security, Software

"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."

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"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."

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"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, Poor, Reputation, Respect

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

Mistake, Cause, Software, Will

"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."

Running, Service, Windows

"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."

Bugs, Software