Quotes by Eric S. Raymond

Eric S. Raymond

Free markets select for winning solutions.

Free Market

Select

Winning

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Programming

Reuse

Writing

If you treat your beta-testers as if they’re your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

Becoming

Resources

Treats

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 of the hacker tribe.

Might

Stories

Thinking

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 the Internet.

Different

Numbers

Volunteer

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

Enlightenment

Profound

Use

Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS’s hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom’s favorite languages.

Powerful

Thinking

Years

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

Alternatives

Language

Layers

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

Problem

Programming

Realizing

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

Machines

Preference

Programmers

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Able

Alchemist

Alternatives

Animal

Asking

Becoming

Brain

Bridges

Bugs

Computer

Cousin

Culture

Customers

Debugging

Defeat

Delusion

Different

Dog

Enlightenment

Enough

Errors

Ethics

Eye

Firsts

Free Market

Free Speech

Fun

Giving

Good Work

Hands

Improvement

Interesting

Internet

Keeping Secrets

Knowledge

Language

Lasts

Layers

Learning

Linux

Looks

Machines

Mad

Memories

Men

Might

Mit

Numbers

People

Persistent

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Quotes by Eric S. Raymond

Eric S. Raymond

Free markets select for winning solutions.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

If you treat your beta-testers as if they’re your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

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 of the hacker tribe.

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 the Internet.

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

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

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

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

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