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"Sure, but competition is good for the user."
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"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"
"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."
"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."
"Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all."
"Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well."
"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."
"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."
"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."
"If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."
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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."
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