Eric S. Raymond
Born 1957
From Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes nonfiction
Eric Steven Raymond, often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Quotes
“Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.”
The Cathedral and the Bazaar “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”
The Cathedral and the Bazaar “At any sufficient scale, those who do not have automatic memory management in their language are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.”
Armed and Dangerous blog “Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity.”
Other quotes “Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.”
How to Become a Hacker
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Eric S. Raymond in order
Books by Eric S. Raymond in the order they were published, from The New Hacker's Dictionary (1991) to The Art of UNIX Programming (2003).
