16 Quotes by Eric Allman

You get a certain amount of cachet. The more people that know about your stuff, the better.

To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry.

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.

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

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

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.

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.