Wietse Venema Quotes

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

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

Wietse Venema

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At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

Wietse Venema

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

Wietse Venema

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Wietse Zweitze Venema (born 1951) is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix email system. He also wrote TCP Wrapper and collaborated with Dan Farmer to produce the computer security tools SATAN and The Coroner's Toolkit.

Defect-free software does not exist.

Wietse Venema

Defect-free software does not exist.

Wietse Venema

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