Pastoral Resources

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

Defect-free software does not exist.

It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.