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"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
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"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."
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"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."
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"In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines."
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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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"Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine."
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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."
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"Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly."
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"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
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"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."
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"I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up."
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"Defect-free software does not exist."
Software
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
Running
"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
Software
"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."
Bugs
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"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."
People
"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."
Change
"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
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
Business
"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."
Experience
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