Eric Allman Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
-
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
-
My health is fine.
-
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
-
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
-
It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
-
Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
-
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
-
I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
-
Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
-
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
-
I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
-
There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
-
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
-
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
-
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
-
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
-
I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
-
That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
-
Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.
-
For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.
-
You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.
-
Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large things - sky, sea, hill, the vagaries of weather, the undeniable needs of animals - that I can disappear as a subject of interest, I can exist without self-consciousness. The city is a challenge for me, however thrilling a few days prove, for its insatiable overstimulation and the rarity of quiet. The city makes people bigger than they need to be.
-
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.
