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.

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.

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

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.

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

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.

Defect-free software does not exist.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

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

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

Sure, but competition is good for the user.

They often say, “What’s the point in astrology if you can’t change yourdestiny?”. Well, it’s true that you can’t change your destiny, but still it helpsknowing about gravity.

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

What? Really? And I thought I was just emotionally withdrawn.” She pulled her feet up, hugging her knees. “I’m also incapable going to be your next brilliant observation.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

Smile more than you cry, Give more than you take, and Love more than you Hate.

It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art.

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.