All Eric S. Raymond Quotes
- It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature Cat
- That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color. Color
- Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch. Developers
- Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom. Inspirational
- 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… Ability
- With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow. All
- 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… All
- If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for… All
- 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. Acquired
- 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… Any
- The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better. Best
- When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor. Competent
- If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you. Attitude
- To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you. Finding
- 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… Better
- When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless… Any
- Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong. Concept
- Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers. Customers
- A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets. Beware
- When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend. Complete