For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier – Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

— Eric S. Raymond

Eric S. Raymond Quotes

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.

— Eric S. Raymond

With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

— Eric S. Raymond

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 of them.

— Eric S. Raymond

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.

— 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 by passion.

— Eric S. Raymond

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

— Eric S. Raymond

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

— Eric S. Raymond

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

— Eric S. Raymond

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world.

— Eric S. Raymond

Why the hell hasn’t wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

— Eric S. Raymond

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

— Eric S. Raymond

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

— Eric S. Raymond

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier – Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

— Eric S. Raymond

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry.

— Eric S. Raymond

A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain.

— Eric S. Raymond

The only way to write complex software that won’t fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down – to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole.

— Eric S. Raymond

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C.

— Eric S. Raymond

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it.

— Eric S. Raymond

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time.

— Eric S. Raymond

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature.

— Eric S. Raymond

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