Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Eric S. Raymond
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 4
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Journalist
Lawyer
Programmer
Software Developer
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Eric Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond
ESR
Huge
Casually
Numbers
Hacked
Rather
Evolved
Different
Volunteer
Way
Nearly
Beginning
Completely
Coordinating
Internet
Volunteers
More quotes by Eric S. Raymond
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
Eric S. Raymond
Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.
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
Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.
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
In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.
Eric S. Raymond
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
Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
Eric S. Raymond
Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?
Eric S. Raymond
Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.
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
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
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
Programmer time is expensive conserve it in preference to machine time
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
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
Eric S. Raymond
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.
Eric S. Raymond
The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user
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
A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.
Eric S. Raymond
