9 Quotes by Eric Raymond

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Way too many obvious junk patents have been issued for things that are obvious to any engineer, and those are being used to suppress competition. I don't see this bill fixing that.

People are imperfect. What we have learned through the ages, though, is that combining lots of people creates a better end result, ... For some reason, we forgot that when it came to developing software.

The fact that this is a very international effort is manifested in the code -- our tools have stronger international support than you will get ordinarily from proprietary software.

You have an equivalent to random mutation, except it's better, ... It's directed mutation, people constantly trying to improve the software.

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

You're sending us to go talk to the PC manufacturers and the PC manufacturers say go talk to Microsoft. How are we supposed to get our refund?

A lot of us do think Microsoft is pretty evil.

And I know what the emergency was. He was buying Andover.net.