Eric S. Raymond Quotes
Top 43 wise famous quotes and sayings by Eric S. Raymond
Eric S. Raymond Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Eric S. Raymond on Wise Famous Quotes.
The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge ... The iPhone is in deep trouble.
Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.
Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.
Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.
The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.
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.
There is a flip side to this. In the Unix world, libraries which are delivered as libraries should come with exerciser programs.
CSV (fields separated by commas, double quotes used to escape commas, no continuation lines) is rarely found under Unix.
Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.
When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry