Eric S. Raymond Quotes

• La formación en informática no puede convertir a nadie en un experto programador, igual que el estudio de los pinceles y el pigmento no puede convertir a nadie en un experto pintor.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Technology, Experts, Computer

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• Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Smart, Data, Simplicity

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.37, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• 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

  Pasión, Gente, Camino

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

  Eric S. Raymond

  Attitude, Interesting, Problem

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.26, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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

  Eric S. Raymond

  Writing, Reuse, Programming

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.24, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Given 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 to someone).

  Eric S. Raymond

  Learning, Bugs, Problem

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• Alchemists turned into chemists
  when they stopped keeping secrets.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Knowledge, Keeping Secrets, Alchemist

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

  Eric S. Raymond

  Polish, Prototype

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

  Eric S. Raymond

  Problem, Realizing, Programming

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.40, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Interesting, Problem, Programming

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.49, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Tools, Use, Way

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.44, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Homework, Substitutes

  "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way". huntersnk.com. September 30, 2016.

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• In 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 than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Stupid, Independent, Thinking

  "What good is IQ?" by Eric S. Raymond, esr.ibiblio.org. November 17, 2003.

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• Merece la pena aprender Lisp por la profunda experiencia iluminadora que tendrá cuando por fin lo consiga; esa experiencia le convertirá en un mejor programador para el resto de sus días, aunque nunca llegue a utilizar mucho el propio Lisp.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Profound, Enlightenment, Use

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, Oreilly & Associates Incorporated

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• Lisp era mucho más potente y flexible que cualquier otro lenguaje de su época; de hecho, sigue siendo un diseño mejor que la mayoría de los lenguajes actuales, veinticinco años después. Lisp permitió a los hackers de ITS pensar de forma inusual y creativa. Fue uno de los principales factores de su éxito y sigue siendo uno de los lenguajes favoritos de los hackers.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Powerful, Thinking, Years

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• The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

  Eric S. Raymond

  Use, Demand, Program

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• 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

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  Fall, Writing, Simple

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• With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Eye, Bugs, Enough

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

  Eric S. Raymond

  Python, Hell, Standards

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

  Eric S. Raymond

  Hands, Lasts, Program

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.26, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Debugging, Improvement, Programming

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.27, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Responsibility, Gun, Want

  "Geeks Win: A survey of the oddballs who write the codes that make the 21st-century world go round". The New York Times Book Review, November 4, 2001.

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• Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Good Work, Programming, Very Good

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.23, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Fun, People, Mad

  "Guest Editorial: World Domination". www.linuxjournal.com. January 1, 2000.

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• Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Technology, Different, Machines

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.8, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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