Top 39 Wietse Venema Quotes
#1. If you cannot find beauty in the midst of ugliness to find heaven on earth, you will not be able to find heaven in space.
Debasish Mridha
#2. One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.
Wietse Venema
#3. Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.
Wietse Venema
#5. Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
Wietse Venema
#6. Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.
Wietse Venema
#7. I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.
Colin Morgan
#8. The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.
Marcus Aurelius
#9. My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.
Wietse Venema
#10. 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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#11. To this it must be added, that life in a wig is to a large class of people much more terrifying and impressive than life with its own head of hair ...
Charles Dickens
#12. 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
#13. As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.
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#14. Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.
Max Stirner
#15. For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.
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#16. 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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#19. 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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#20. The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.
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#21. 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
#22. By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world ... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?
Rick Danko
#23. 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
#24. A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
Jill Lepore
#25. If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James
#26. Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.
Wietse Venema
#27. 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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#28. The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.
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#29. Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.
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#30. 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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#31. 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.
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#32. Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.
Wietse Venema
#33. Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.
Sergey Brin
#34. 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
#35. Spending one's last moments prostrated before the toilet is the supreme act of repentance. It allows one to relieve a heavy inner burden.
Bauvard
#36. Nevadans, and all Americans, are resilient. Overcoming adversity is a part of our national heritage.
Brian Sandoval
#37. Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service.
Wietse Venema
#38. Listening isn't just about being quiet.
It's about listening to -
What is Said,
What is Unsaid,
and
What is meant
With your Eyes, Ears and Heart
Drishti Bablani
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