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Eric S Raymond Inspirational Quotes (40)

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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).
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The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user
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Programmer time is expensive conserve it in preference to machine time
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Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.
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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?.
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Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.
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Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
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Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.
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Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
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Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
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Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.
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If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.
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Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.
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The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.
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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.
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If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.
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Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.
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With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.
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Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.
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It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature
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Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
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Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it
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When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
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The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
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