Wietse Venema Quotes

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

- Wietse Venema

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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

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