[OT] Windows dying

[Dave Jones]

On Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 08:59:05 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 06:28:52 UTC, codephantom wrote:
>>
>> But Ken Thompson summed it all up nicely: "You can't trust 
>> code that you did not totally create yourself."
>
> Even that is wrong. You can trust code you create yourself only 
> if it was reviewed by others as involved as you. I do not trust 
> the code I write. The code I write is generally conforming to 
> the problem I think it solves. More than once I was wrong on my 
> assumptions and therefore my code was wrong, even if perfectly 
> implemented.

He means trust in the sense that there's no nefarious payload 
hidden in there, not that it works properly.