Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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

Eric S. Raymond's Popular Quotes

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