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"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."
Mistake
"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
"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
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
Business
"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."
Acceptance
"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
"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
"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."
Favors
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
Challenge
"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."
Security
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"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."
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Personal Development
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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Personal Development
"It's just a mistake, you understand you don't ya??... and Hello, father 33 days from your dead!"
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Personal Development
"Never mind the mistakes. One day they will become your most prized possessions."
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Personal Development
"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
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Personal Development
"From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right."
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Personal Development
"We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues."
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Personal Development
"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."
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Personal Development
"I made a lot of mistakes, one of them was to promise. I must stop promise, the promise is like something which you in everytime in any case you must do what you said you will do! - That's why I hate it!"
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Personal Development
"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."
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Personal Development
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