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"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."
"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."
"Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine."
"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
"Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly."
"It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else."
"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."
"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
"The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded."
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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."
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
"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."
"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."
"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."
"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."
"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting."
"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."
"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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