“When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.”
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Defect-free software does not exist.
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.
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
