Eric S. Raymond quote: "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 hacker tribe."

Does Facebook act as though I own my online life, or as though it does? Concretely: Can I control wh...
ERIC S. RAYMOND

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacke...
ERIC S. RAYMOND

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, ag...
ERIC S. RAYMOND

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

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year...
ERIC S. RAYMOND

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're ...
ERIC S. RAYMOND

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for...
ERIC S. RAYMOND

Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with...
ERIC S. RAYMOND

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.
ERIC S. RAYMOND

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had becom...
ERIC S. RAYMOND

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and st...
ERIC S. RAYMOND

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it ...
ERIC S. RAYMOND

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
ERIC S. RAYMOND

People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative ta...
ERIC S. RAYMOND

Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becom...
ERIC S. RAYMOND

People are imperfect. What we have learned through the ages, though, is that combining lots of peopl...
ERIC RAYMOND

The important move would be to document all [Microsoft's] file formats and communications protocols,...
ERIC RAYMOND

On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the info...
ERIC RAYMOND

Of course they're using it, ... It doesn't suck.
ERIC RAYMOND

You have an equivalent to random mutation, except it's better, ... It's directed mutation, people co...
ERIC RAYMOND

A lot of us do think Microsoft is pretty evil.
ERIC RAYMOND

Indirectly, the impact [of LSB] will be large on [enterprise deployments], ... As independent softwa...
ERIC RAYMOND

The fact that [the summit] is happening at all, the fact that people in these sub-tribes see a need ...
ERIC RAYMOND

The fact that this is a very international effort is manifested in the code -- our tools have strong...
ERIC RAYMOND

You're sending us to go talk to the PC manufacturers and the PC manufacturers say go talk to Microso...
ERIC RAYMOND

The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
ERIC RAYMOND

[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of ...
RAYMOND S. MOORE

Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art...
ERIC S. RABKIN

4 of us, and 2000 of them. Piss-poor odds. For them.
ERIC S. NYLUND

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years...
RAYMOND BURR

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right butto...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would neve...
RAYMOND ARROYO

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
RAYMOND DUNCAN

I fell into acting by going to a callback for J.C. Penney with my two older brothers when I was 4 1/...
RAYMOND OCHOA

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.
RAYMOND HULL

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It is not a fragrant world.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise stateme...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have...
RAYMOND CARVER

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
RAYMOND HULL

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.
RAYMOND CARVER

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
RAYMOND RADIGUET

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK

The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated pe...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
RAYMOND HULL

You must see first before you can believe.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I c...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude t...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the...
RAYMOND WILLIAMS

The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, no...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His functi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more de...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes litera...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scho...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was...
RAYMOND WILLIAMS

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

A really good detective never gets married.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral gro...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Desire creates the power.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were d...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible ...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can m...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobod...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delive...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the highe...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The most prepared are the most dedicated.
RAYMOND BERRY

The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been an...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artis...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have devel...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangli...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.....
RAYMOND CHANDLER

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are peop...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. Th...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endle...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called signi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must se...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

A good title is the title of a successful book.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your br...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can ...
RAYMOND SPRUANCE

The more you reason the less you create.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the ma...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statem...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN

Don't let the University get in the way of your education.
RAYMOND BROWN

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the l...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.
RAYMOND LOEWY

Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targ...
RAYMOND KETHLEDGE

I love being able to bring an animator's vision to life and give the breath to the voice of a ch...
RAYMOND OCHOA

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.
RAYMOND FLOYD

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
RAYMOND QUENEAU

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
RAYMOND LOEWY

'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
RAYMOND ARROYO

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
RAYMOND CARVER

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
RAYMOND QUENEAU

I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man...
RAYMOND BURR

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical i...
RAYMOND CARVER

The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
RAYMOND LOEWY

I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day... but my body has been one of those that has almost ...
RAYMOND BURR

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look l...
RAYMOND LOEWY

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other...
RAYMOND LOEWY

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned mos...
RAYMOND KELLY

Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf hol...
RAYMOND BONNER

Sydney's most famous beach is Bondi. At its southern end is Bondi Baths, an eight-lane, 50-meter...
RAYMOND BONNER

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the re...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in ever...
RAYMOND MOODY

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I cou...
RAYMOND CARVER

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
RAYMOND QUENEAU

It's very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job...
RAYMOND AUBRAC

There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yours...
RAYMOND BONNER

No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it u...
RAYMOND MOODY

No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the othe...
RAYMOND LOEWY

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
RAYMOND LINDQUIST

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon ...
RAYMOND HERZOG

To give your best is to receive the best.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

California, the department store state.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

In a developing country like Ghana, the issue about standardized testing is not different, because a...
RAYMOND OBENG

I can understand that Muslims find the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in the Norwegian weekly.....
RAYMOND JOHANSEN

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any sta...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking a...
RAYMOND ARROYO

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, footbal...
JONATHAN RAYMOND

People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?'...
RAYMOND BURR

Hope is simply an anchor that we hold on to, as a way of envisioning the brightness of our future.
RAYMOND OBENG

American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably...
RAYMOND LOEWY

The Coke bottle is a masterpiece of scientific, functional planning. In simpler terms, I would descr...
RAYMOND LOEWY

A lot was achieved, including the finalization of a protocol setting out global standards for the pr...
RAYMOND MARTIN

I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she...
RAYMOND BURR

You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us ...
RAYMOND CARVER

It's a new role for me. In the past, I've played partners that were the less emotional leader. Now, ...
LISA RAYMOND

If you are doing well, it is an incredible lifestyle.
LISA RAYMOND

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
RAYMOND ARON

The journey of a biased investigation leads to a destination of biased findings.
RAYMOND OBENG

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the m...
RAYMOND CARVER

If all married men and women will appreciate and cherish their partners' sex organs no matter how th...
RAYMOND OBENG

Truth unveiled is as harmful as the sickness that overpowers all efficacious medications.
RAYMOND OBENG

Naturally, nobody seems not to enjoy working. But it is working harder, and going the extra mile in ...
RAYMOND OBENG

If you want to get fired easily as an employee, behave as if you were the C.E.O of your organization...
RAYMOND OBENG

I am prepared to do any 'dirty', hard job today for any good money, whilst I fix my eyes on God for ...
RAYMOND OBENG

God's children have the finest value placed in them.
RAYMOND OBENG

If you think little truth is not enough for you, try too much truth. The hurt from too much truth is...
RAYMOND OBENG

In as much as we want to make good use of social media in our day to day activities, we must never l...
RAYMOND OBENG

As an immigrant in America, I learned one of two things that I had to apply to make me move up: sile...
RAYMOND OBENG

If you wanna end your life like how King Uzziah did, then pride your life. But remember that sinful ...
RAYMOND OBENG

The only result of being proud is making yourself nothing among your peers.
RAYMOND OBENG

As a student, I have always relied on, and sought refuge from my educators, though I believe some ma...
RAYMOND OBENG

I have learned that marrying is dissimilar to living as married.
RAYMOND OBENG

Three things to tell a woman you want to woo:'You are comely', 'You are blessed', and 'You deserve t...
RAYMOND OBENG

The journey in life is either silence or opportunity
RAYMOND OBENG

Life isn't made by rushing through it.
RAYMOND OBENG

Leadership ought to have a soul that ensures flexibility, respect, dignity, and justice for all.
RAYMOND OBENG

Leading is a matter of obedience to principles
RAYMOND OBENG

The presence of leadership in organizations empowers employees to stay focused on their responsibili...
RAYMOND OBENG

The absence of hope makes humanity meaningless.
RAYMOND OBENG

If we really know and understand what it takes a man or woman to live, and to become a grandpa or gr...
RAYMOND OBENG

O man, do not ever forget the God who hearkened to your voice in time of trouble
RAYMOND OBENG

The best way ever to keep oneself from getting into troubles, and to run away from experiencing cris...
RAYMOND OBENG

One of the best ways to curb the bullying menace in our schools is by developing healthy and respect...
RAYMOND OBENG

The only gift I can give to my grand mom for all that she has done for me is to tell her 'May Yahweh...
RAYMOND OBENG

One thing is ever sure, and that is anger makes you look stupid all your life time.
RAYMOND OBENG

Aging destroys the virginity of our humanity
RAYMOND OBENG

We get refined only if we are wiling to accept our mistakes and do all the right things we can to fi...
RAYMOND OBENG

We those who work in the human services industry, we are the ones who make the Christmas holiday hel...
RAYMOND OBENG

Leaders keep employees alert.
RAYMOND OBENG

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 hacker tribe.

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