"Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)"

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Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.24, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Eric S. Raymond

#Writing Quotes #Reuse Quotes

“Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.”
“I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.”
“The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the bloodinto a medium not intended for them may provoke redoubtable manifestations of the gravest morbid phenomena.”
“The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. Everything I've done ends up working in my favor. Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.”

Source : Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. September 20, 2011.
“Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.”
“But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.”
“A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.”

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