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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."
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"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
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"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."
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"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
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"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
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"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."
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"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."
People
"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."
Change
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
Business
"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
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"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
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
Running
"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."
Mistake
"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
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
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