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18 quotes by Eric S. Raymond

Eric S. Raymond Raymond at Linucon 2004 Born (1957-12-04) December 4, 1957 (age 57) Boston, Massachusetts Residence Pennsylvania Nationality American Alma mater University of Pennsylvania (dropped out) Occupation Software developer, author Website www.catb.org/~esr/ Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, author of the widely cited 1997 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar...
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For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years... →

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In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

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

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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.

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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... →

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Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating... →

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When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not... →

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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... →

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Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.

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Does Facebook act as though I own my online life, or as though it does? Concretely: Can I control what data it shares with other users, with... →

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Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples' agendas? Concretely: can I... →

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People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge... →

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People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain... →

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