"The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better."

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Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.40, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Eric S. Raymond

#Ideas Quotes #Next Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“The truth about myself? I'm obstinate, self-assured, ambitious and sloppy. I think I lead a quite normal life, certainly with five hours of trainig per day. Many people would probably be surprised if they met me.”
“There are some cases that have come to my attention where there's been a head injury, or getting struck by lightning and surviving, with really no disability or residual. So there are cases that I'm aware of where there's been some incident which triggered the acquired savant ability, but is not associated with long term disability, so that can occur. But I think that's probably the exception rather than the rule in that I think many of the acquired savants do end up with some residual disability.”
“Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.”
“Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!”
“When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.”

Source : Rosellen Brown (1998). “Civil Wars”, Delta
“I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.”
“I've learned: When you get older, who cares? I don't mince words, I don't hold back. What are you gonna do to me? Fire me? It's been done. Threaten to commit suicide? Done. Take away my show? Done! Not invite to me to the Vanity Fair party? I've never been invited! If I ever saw the invitation, I'd use it as toilet paper.”
“Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.”

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