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"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
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"Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical."
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"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."
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"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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"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
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"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
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"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine."
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"Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine."
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"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."
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"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish."
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"Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools."
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"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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"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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"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
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"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."
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"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
Challenge
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
Machine
"I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise."
Work
"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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"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."
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