Bruce Perens famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.
-- Bruce Perens

#Running #Long #Care
But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now.
-- Bruce Perens

#Past #Years #Body
The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from those of other products.
-- Bruce Perens

#Information #Different #World
The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.
-- Bruce Perens

#Marketing #Source #Process
Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive and effective in their work.
-- Bruce Perens

#Steps #Rubies #Enabling
Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.
-- Bruce Perens

#Vcr #Want #Linux
It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news "Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut." On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you.
-- Bruce Perens

#Believe #Nuts #Police
It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.
-- Bruce Perens

#Ego #Mind #Ifs
The world is beating a path to our door
-- Bruce Perens

#Doors #World #Path

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, â€œThere is no hurry. We shall get there some day.â€ But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.
He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
You have to trust your body to take care of you.
I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
I'm getting older, and it happens. You don't care as much. I don't care about too much anymore. I've got to think about that a little bit.

Bruce Perens famous quotes

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