The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.

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

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

When we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.