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"Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score."

"Where there is competition, one cannot attain (true) 'Knowledge'."

"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."

"If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."

"If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place."

"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."

"Hmm", Jason snapped his fingers. "I can call a friend for a ride.Percy raised his eyebrows. "Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first."

"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."

"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."

"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square."
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"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."


"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."


"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."


"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."


"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."


"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."


"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."


"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."


"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
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