Wietse Venema Quotes

My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated. - Wietse Venema

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

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements. - Wietse Venema

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

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

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

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

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

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way. - Wietse Venema

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