Top 37 Venema Quotes
#1. For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.
Wietse Venema
#2. Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
Wietse Venema
#3. Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.
Wietse Venema
#4. People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
Ja Rule
#5. My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.
Wietse Venema
#6. 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.
Wietse Venema
#7. This is not your mom's fairy tale.'
From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.
Ashen Venema
#9. 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
#10. As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.
Wietse Venema
#12. 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.
Wietse Venema
#14. When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.
Bonnie Bedelia
#15. I could write novels about her forever. Maybe when I die I will end up in the poem with her writing more poems about our times together.' The Diary
Jeremy Limn
#16. Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.
Richard Steele
#17. 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.
Wietse Venema
#18. The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.
Wietse Venema
#19. In the life of every believer, there is conformity to Christ's suffering, a participation in Christ that inevitably includes the elements of self-denial, shame, and loss.
Cornelis P. Venema
#20. When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
Wietse Venema
#21. When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.
D.H. Lawrence
#22. 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.
Wietse Venema
#23. You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.'
Michael K. Williams
#24. Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.
Wietse Venema
#25. 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.
Wietse Venema
#26. The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.
Wietse Venema
#27. Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.
Wietse Venema
#28. TIME' is something to invest but for failed people, it is a thing to be passed.
Samar Sudha
#29. 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
#30. 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.
Wietse Venema
#31. Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.
Wietse Venema
#32. I now spend my time solely on those activities that only I can do, and even then only on those activities that have the highest return. These
Lisa Nichols
#33. 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
#34. Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service.
Wietse Venema
#36. One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.
Wietse Venema
#37. Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.
Wietse Venema
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