Eric Allman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
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I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.
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People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.
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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.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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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.
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Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
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Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
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Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?
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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?
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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.
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I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
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