Eric S. RaymondA security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets. ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Acc… ▶372Politics
Eric S. RaymondProgrammer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2003). The Art of UNIX Programming, p.22, Addison-Wesley Professional374Time
Eric S. RaymondGiven enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious t… ▶331Politics
Eric S. RaymondFor 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… ▶334PoliticsTime
Eric S. RaymondRelease early. Release often. And listen to your customers. ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutio… ▶323Thought
Eric S. RaymondProvided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one… ▶345Hope
Eric S. RaymondThe central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management379Hope
Eric S. RaymondThe 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 (2001). The Cathedral & … ▶346Thought
Eric S. RaymondPrototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it369Hope
Eric S. RaymondIn the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower t… ▶369HumanityThoughtTruth
Eric S. RaymondSoftware is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & th… ▶3610Truth
Eric S. RaymondBerkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires. ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source… ▶3610Humor
Eric S. RaymondWhen you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor. ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux … ▶337Reflection
Eric S. RaymondLisp 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… ▶304Life
Eric S. RaymondWhen writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to! 3510Sadness
Eric S. RaymondAny tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected. ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings … ▶306Reflection
Eric S. RaymondEvery good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch. ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Acc… ▶274Politics
Eric S. RaymondWhy the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?296Reading
Eric S. RaymondTreating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging. ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musi… ▶285Politics
Eric S. RaymondIf you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you. ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental R… ▶318Love
Eric S. RaymondSmart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around. ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by a… ▶297Death
Eric S. RaymondA 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… ▶253Truth
Eric S. RaymondTo solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you. ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Sourc… ▶253Truth
Eric S. RaymondComputer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.242DeathSadness
Eric S. RaymondRushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the… ▶309Time
Eric S. RaymondUgly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intim… ▶254Humanity
Eric S. RaymondWhen your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend. ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Sourc… ▶277Politics
Eric S. RaymondIf you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource. ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral … ▶267Politics
Eric S. RaymondIf 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. R… ▶257Time
Eric S. RaymondWhen I hear the words social responsibility, I want to reach for my gun. ✨ Geeks Win: A survey of the oddballs who write the codes that make the 21st-century world go round.… ▶2710ReadingTime
