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"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."
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"I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights."
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"
"Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in."
"The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk."
"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."
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"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."
"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."
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
"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."
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"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."
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."
"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."
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