Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better progra…

- Eric S. Raymond

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…

- Eric S. Raymond

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

- Eric S. Raymond

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

- Eric S. Raymond

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

- Eric S. Raymond

Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.

- Eric S. Raymond

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

- Eric S. Raymond

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

- Eric S. Raymond

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