Alchemy Quote by Linus Torvalds

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this…

— Matt Mullenweg

I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why…

— Brian Behlendorf

Open-mindedness provides a platform on which you can build, piling one idea on top of another.

— Senoraroy

I liked science. It was about the only thing that stayed the same wherever we moved.

— Ellen Klages

Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest…

— Linus Torvalds

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

— Richard Stallman

Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things.

— Henry H. Bauer

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

— Linus Torvalds

I've always felt that sort of in the abstract, open-source is the right thing to do for a lot of the kinds of things…

— James Gosling

Open-source is a means of production.

— Bruce Sterling

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

— Stanislav Grof

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