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"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
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"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine."
"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."
"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."
"The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it."
"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."
"I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up."
"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."
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"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."
"I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on."
"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."
"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."
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."
"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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