Best 7 quotes of Eric Allman on MyQuotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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