Eric Allman famous quotes

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.
-- Eric Allman

#Believe #Joy #Plot

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.
-- Eric Allman

#Wine #Long #Good Food

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.
-- Eric Allman

#Two Sides #Too Much #Company

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
-- Eric Allman

#Technology #Law #Intellectual

There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny.
-- Eric Allman

#Hate #Gay #Knowing

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.
-- Eric Allman

#Technology #People #Want

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.
-- Eric Allman

#Funny #Couple #Science

People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.
-- Eric Allman

#People

I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.