#soft

I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#any #anybody #approach #difference #extent

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#anyone #around #concede #consumer #experience

There is no accountability in soft money. None. ↗

— Zack Wamp

#money #none #soft #soft money

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#annoy #challenge #docile #final #final word

Defect-free software does not exist. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#does #exist #free software #software

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

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 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

#avoid #choice #i #into #locking