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Wietse Venema

"Sure, but competition is good for the user."

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

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

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

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

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"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."

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"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."

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

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

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"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."
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"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."
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"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."
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"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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