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Months Now Work Time Want

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

Other quotes by Wietse Venema


Life

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
Machine

One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

- Wietse Venema
Favors

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

- Wietse Venema
Mail Today

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

- Wietse Venema
Computer

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
Computer Writing Will

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

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Work Friends

He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work.

- Ronald Harwood
Work

Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.

- Jon Fishman
Work Thinking People

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

- Harvey Pekar
Work God

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

- Martin Gardner
Now Work Will

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

- Abbey Lincoln
Work People

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.

- Greg Ginn