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"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
"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."
"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."
"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
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"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."
"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."
"The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk."
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"
"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."
"I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players."
Bugs,
"Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."
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