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

People, Forget, Software

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

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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."

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"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, Physics, Safety, Software

"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."

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

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

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

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"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."

Computer, Interest, Security, Software

"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."

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"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, Poor, Reputation, Respect

"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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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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