The world doesn't live off jam and fancy perfumes - it lives off bread and meat and potatoes. Nothing changes. All the big fancy stuff is sloppy stuff that crashes. I don't need dancing baloney - I need stuff that works. That's not as pretty, and just as hard.

— Theo de Raadt, Six-monthly releases: OpenBSD shows the way (2009)

Source: http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/29872-six-monthly-releases-openbsd-shows-the-way/29872-six-monthly-releases-openbsd-shows-the-way?start=1

Appears in a 2009 iTWire column by Sam Varghese.

Topics: software engineering, simplicity