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"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."
"The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission."
"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."
"Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine."
"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine."
"The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."
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