Eric Allman

“There's a certain joy in hacking - not breaking into computers - but in making a computer do something it was never intended to do.”

“There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of mail without touching a process that I wrote.”

“The name sendmail is an anachronism. It's not just about sending mail, it's about routing mail.”

“The single most important thing in design is to be simple. The second most important thing is to be simple. The third most important thing is to be simple.”

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”