"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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When Wietse Venema speaks about failure, it invites us to pause and reflect on our own journey. How often do we consider the subtle impacts of failure in our daily lives? This thought-provoking perspective challenges conventional wisdom and encourages a deeper understanding of ourselves.

About Wietse Venema

Wietse Zweitze Venema 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.

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