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"And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else."

"Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives."

"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running."

"I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all."

"I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing."

"I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support."

"I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track."

"I really don't look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs."
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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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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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