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"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."

"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."

"Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up."

"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."

"If we want to be free [get liberated], don't compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours."

"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."

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

"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"

"Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score."
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"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."


"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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