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Wietse Venema

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

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Amber Hurdle

"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."

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Amber Hurdle

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."

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Amber Hurdle

"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."

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Amber Hurdle

"We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."

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Amber Hurdle

"Don't be defeatist due to the mistakes you make. Mistakes are inevitable part of growth."

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Amber Hurdle

"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, Melancholy's child,Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of menThe things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,But kill'st the mother that engendered thee."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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

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Wietse Venema
"Sure, but competition is good for the user."

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

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

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