Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Eric Allman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Eric Allman.

Last updated on December 20, 2024.

Eric Paul Allman is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. In 1998, Allman and Greg Olson co-founded the company Sendmail, Inc.

American - Scientist | Born: 1955

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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.

Eric Allman

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

Eric Allman

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

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

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

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

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

Eric Allman

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

Eric Allman