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Wietse Venema

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

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"The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy."

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"The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities."

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"Treat your clients with high professionalism and they will no more negotiate with you."

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"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him."

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"I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything."

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"We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don't we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy."

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"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."

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"You want to build a big business? Start with your character."

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"One of the biggest secrets of success is delegation. Exactly the method Sir Richard Branson uses! If it helped him become a billionaire businessman then it is worth utilizing in your own life/business, etc."

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"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."

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Wietse Venema
"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."

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Wietse Venema
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."

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Wietse Venema
"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."

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

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Wietse Venema
"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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Wietse Venema
"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."

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Wietse Venema
"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."

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Wietse Venema
"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting."

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Wietse Venema
"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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Wietse Venema
"I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot."

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