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"Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you."
"If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place."
"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."
"Compete with yourself, you have no knowledge about the degree of gifting others might have. Don't decide to slow down because you have gone too far and everyone is behind you!"
"I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision."
"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."
"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."
"Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes."
"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."
"Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning."
Explore more quotes by Wietse Venema
"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."
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
"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."
"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 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."
"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."
"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting."
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