Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Programmer time is expensive conserve it in preference to machine time
Eric S. Raymond
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Eric S. Raymond
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: December 4
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Journalist
Lawyer
Programmer
Software Developer
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Eric Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond
ESR
Conserve
Programmer
Programmers
Preference
Expensive
Machine
Machines
Time
More quotes by Eric S. Raymond
If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.
Eric S. Raymond
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
Eric S. Raymond
A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.
Eric S. Raymond
Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
Eric S. Raymond
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
Eric S. Raymond
Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.
Eric S. Raymond
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
Eric S. Raymond
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.
Eric S. Raymond
It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature
Eric S. Raymond
Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
Eric S. Raymond
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).
Eric S. Raymond
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
Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
Eric S. Raymond
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.
Eric S. Raymond
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
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.
Eric S. Raymond
Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.
Eric S. Raymond
When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
Eric S. Raymond
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
Eric S. Raymond
Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?
Eric S. Raymond
