Pastoral Resources

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.

I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.

There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates.

The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

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

The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.

Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.

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

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