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Wietse Venema

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

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Akiroq Brost

"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."

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Akiroq Brost

"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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Akiroq Brost

"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."

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Akiroq Brost

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

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Akiroq Brost

"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."

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Akiroq Brost

"Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes."

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Akiroq Brost

"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."

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Akiroq Brost

"Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning."

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Akiroq Brost

"Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition."

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Akiroq Brost

"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."

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Wietse Venema
"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."

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

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Wietse Venema
"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."

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

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Wietse Venema
"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting."

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Wietse Venema
"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."

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

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Wietse Venema
"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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Wietse Venema
"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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Wietse Venema
"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."

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