Defect Quote by Wietse Venema Download Open image “Defect-free software does not exist.” — Wietse Venema ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defect Defect Free Free Software Programming Software Software Does Technology
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe -… — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify… — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came… — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not… — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe -… — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive… — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
