Becoming Quote by Eric S. Raymond

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

“We’re proving not only that we can do better software, but that joy is an asset.”

— Eric S. Raymond

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

— Eric S. Raymond

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

— Eric S. Raymond

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

— Eric S. Raymond

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