Eric Allman Quotes
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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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
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Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.
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I'll tell you this - No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.
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From the outside, there's a lot of glitz. They see you on the red carpet, but they don't see what it takes to get there.
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figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.
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All things can be done by every company in the world. Apple builds a phone, and so does Samsung. It's not about being different but about being better at what you do.
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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.
