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

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.

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

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.

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

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.

Defect-free software does not exist.

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

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

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

Sure, but competition is good for the user.

If you don't fit into a box you can always try to fit into a circle.

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.

If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

Even when things are getting worse instead of better - I believe God!