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"Sure, but competition is good for the user."
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"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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"It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result."
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"Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
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"The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us."
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"Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
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"We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression."
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"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."
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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."
Life
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
Business
"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."
Time
"Sure, but competition is good for the user."
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"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
Running
"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."
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"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
Machine
"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."
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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."
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"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."
Computer
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