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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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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