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

Wietse Venema

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.

Wietse Venema

Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service.

Wietse Venema

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

Wietse Venema

According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.

Wilhelm Wien

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

Joseph Rotblat

We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Augustus Waters: Hello, are you Monica's mother? Monica's Mom: I am... Augustus Waters: Hello, ma'am. Your daughter, she's done a great injustice, so we've come here seeking revenge. You see, we may not look like much, but between the three of us we ...

The Fault in Our Stars

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction

True faith manifests itself through our actions.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Culture and Value

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

Culture and Value

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Culture and Value

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts.

Eastern Standard Tribe

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

Evangelical Theology

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

Eastern Standard Tribe

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

Faith and Doubt

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work