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The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user
Eric S. Raymond
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Eric S. Raymond
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 4
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Eric Steven Raymond
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Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
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And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.
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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 workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
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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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Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
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Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.
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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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Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C
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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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