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Defect-free software does not exist. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#does #exist #free software #software

There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#arrived #aware #became #class #comes

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#all-around #dissent #duty #matter #often

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

#controlled #deal #equipment #experiments #failures

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face. ↗

— Michael Eisner

#become #business #characters #face #fuzzy

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

— Wietse Venema

#keeps #like #only #requirements #software

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#always #asked #because #before #decided

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ↗

— George Eliot

#despair #eagerness #hope #often #only

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

#adverse conditions #behaves #conditions #defects #difficult

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#films #freedom #get #i #i think