All Eric S. Raymond Quotes
- 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
- If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource. Becoming
- Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected. Any
- Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging. Co
- Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. Able
- When I hear the words social responsibility, I want to reach for my gun. Gun
- Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer. Cadre
- Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be… Among
- In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes… Almost Played
- 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… Beginning
- The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network. Arpanet