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Eric S Raymond Quotes

Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework Picture Quote #1

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry Picture Quote #1

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet Picture Quote #1

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture Picture Quote #1

When are programmers happy? They’re happy when they’re not underutilized - when they’re not bored - and also when they’re not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they’re working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work Picture Quote #1

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter Picture Quote #1

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Does Facebook act as though I own my online life, or as though it does? Concretely: Can I control what data it shares with other users, with advertisers, and with business partners? Picture Quote #1

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet Picture Quote #1

On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users? Picture Quote #1

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected Picture Quote #1

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong Picture Quote #1

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor Picture Quote #1

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The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better Picture Quote #1

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion Picture Quote #1

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter Picture Quote #1

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers Picture Quote #1

With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow Picture Quote #1

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom Picture Quote #1

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That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color Picture Quote #1

To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you Picture Quote #1

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch Picture Quote #1

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time Picture Quote #1

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world Picture Quote #1

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around Picture Quote #1

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When I hear the words social responsibility, I want to reach for my gun Picture Quote #1

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires Picture Quote #1

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user Picture Quote #1

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Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry (Eric S Raymond Quotes) For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. (Eric S Raymond Quotes) People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture. (Eric S Raymond Quotes) When are programmers happy? They’re happy when they’re not underutilized - when they’re not bored - and also when they’re not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they’re working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work. (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Does Facebook act as though I own my online life, or as though it does? Concretely: Can I control what data it shares with other users, with advertisers, and with business partners? (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet (Eric S Raymond Quotes) On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users? (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong (Eric S Raymond Quotes) When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor (Eric S Raymond Quotes) The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better (Eric S Raymond Quotes) You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers (Eric S Raymond Quotes) With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom (Eric S Raymond Quotes) That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color (Eric S Raymond Quotes) To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around (Eric S Raymond Quotes) When I hear the words social responsibility, I want to reach for my gun (Eric S Raymond Quotes) Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires (Eric S Raymond Quotes) The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user (Eric S Raymond Quotes)