"For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet."

--

Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.13, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Eric S. Raymond

#Home Quotes #Talking Quotes #Years Quotes

“Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.”
“Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.”
“Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.”
“I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players donâ€™t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.”
“Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'”
“I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”
“Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.”

You may also like:

Brian Kernighan
Computer Scientist
Dennis Ritchie
Computer Scientist
Guido van Rossum
Computer programmer
Guy Steele
Computer Scientist
Ken Thompson
Computer Designer
Larry Wall
Programmer
Linus Torvalds
Software Engineer
Miguel de Icaza
Programmer
Richard Stallman
Activist