Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.
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
Grovelling
Homework
Substitute
Substitutes
More quotes by 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
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
Eric S. Raymond
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
Eric S. Raymond
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
Eric S. Raymond
Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
Eric S. Raymond
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
Eric S. Raymond
The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user
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
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
Eric S. Raymond
Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.
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
Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it
Eric S. Raymond
The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.
Eric S. Raymond
Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
Eric S. Raymond
Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
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
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
Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?
Eric S. Raymond
With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.
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
