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• 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.

  Wietse Venema

  Writing, Computer, Surprise

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• 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.

  Wietse Venema

  Safety, Kind, Physics

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• I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise.

  Wietse Venema

  Should Have, People, Choices

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• Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.

  Wietse Venema

  Requirements

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• The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.

  Wietse Venema

  Stupid, Simple, Models

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• The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.

  Wietse Venema

  Challenges, Pieces, Updates

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

  Wietse Venema

  Writing, Interesting, Challenges

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• It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.

  Dale Dauten

  Business, Appreciate, Paper

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• Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Spiritual, Needs, Body

  Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.8, Verso

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• Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do. It costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.

  John Carmack

  People, Bed, Add

  "John Carmack: Making the Magic Happen" by Brad Cook, www.bradcook.net. February 2009.

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• Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.

  Nancy Leveson

  Requirements, Flawed, Accidents

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• There are "extremists" in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do "free software" any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Hatred, World

  "Microsoft Patches Linux; Linus Responds" by Christopher Smart, www.linux-mag.com. July 22, 2009.

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• People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are.

  Bill Gates

  Past, Years, Pda

  "Gates touts interactive TV" by Laura Rohde, www.cnn.com. October 14, 1999.

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• We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

  Alistair Cockburn

  Development, Infancy, Projects

  Alistair Cockburn (2006). “Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game”, p.54, Pearson Education

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• One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of people - can keep in their heads. This is why software is generally beneath contempt.

  Bran Ferren

  Team, People, Design

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• The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

  Fred Brooks

  Building, Hardest

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• If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the informal process of open-source itself. It seems to me the DHS is trying to turn an open-source development project into a Microsoft (or IBM or Oracle) software development project. And we know what that means: more, not fewer, errors -- security and otherwise.

  Mark Hall

  Mean, Errors, Trying

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• The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

  Lev Grossman

  People, Together, Different

  "You — Yes, You — Are TIME's Person of the Year" by Lev Grossman, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

  Aaron Levie

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

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• If Apple ever lowers the iPod's price and develops Windows software for it, watch out: the invasion of the iPod people will surely begin in earnest.

  David Pogue

  Apples, Ipods, People

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• Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is hardly surprising that men and women have done what computers now do long before computers could do anything at all. The dissociation between mind and matter in men and machines is very striking; it suggests that almost any stable and reliable organization of material objects can execute an algorithm and so come to command some form of intelligence.

  David Berlinski

  Men, Organization, Long

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

  Jamie Zawinski

  Beauty, Running, Writing

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• Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it.

  James Paul Gee

  Thinking, Playing Games, Computer Literacy

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• I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about "open source" thinking that I work under that banner.

  Richard Stallman

  Thinking, People, Alternatives

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot Interview, news.slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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• In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

  Vinod Khosla

  Future, Science, Years

  "Vinod Khosla: In The Next 10 Years, Data Science Will Do More For Medicine Than All Biological Sciences Combined". techcrunch.com. September 11, 2013.

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