You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone:… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples'… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“We’re proving not only that we can do better software, but that joy is an asset.” — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“If (as is generally accepted) over 75% of a typical software project’s life-cycle costs will be in maintenance and debugging and extensions, then the… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
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… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“The Linux world behaves in many respects like a free market or an ecology, a collection of selfish agents attempting to maximize utility which… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“The reason this is a serious issue is that both the pool of users and the pool of talent available to be recruited into… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
