Wietse Venema Quotes

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

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

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

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

The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid. - Wietse Venema

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

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

Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service. - Wietse Venema

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

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