Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (…

Eric S. Raymond
46 citations
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse) ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, p.24, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Humor
5

More Author Quotes

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
A 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 Accidental Revolutionary, p.4 … ▶
When 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 Source by an Accidental Revolut … ▶
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 ful … ▶
Berkeley 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 by an Accidental Revoluti … ▶

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse) ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, p.24, O'Reilly Media, Inc.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes