Class Quote by Bertrand Meyer

Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation and leadership,…

— Mitchell Baker

The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming…

— Richard Stallman

I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

— Kenneth P. Thompson

Shift often from openness to closure.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We should probably figure out a new word for this. For us, "open" means transparent, as in "open source" - you're not locked in…

— Mitchell Baker

All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.

— Miguel de Icaza

Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning.

— Margaret Heffernan

“For purposes of examining the software market itself, it will be helpful to sort kinds of software by how completely the service they offer…

— Eric S. Raymond

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

— David Hume

Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.

— Jim Allchin

Every project has its own logic and parameters. In some objects, functionality is primary, and in others, it is rather inconsequential.

— Marcel Wanders

“Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.”

— Paul Graham