"Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging."

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Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.27, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Eric S. Raymond

#Debugging Quotes #Improvement Quotes #Rapids Quotes

“It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain basement, but I don't agree with that estimate. People don't realize that water in the liquid state is very rare in the universe. Away from earth it is usually a gas. This moisture is a blessed treasure, and it is our basic duty, if we don't want to commit suicide, to preserve it.”
“See, my strumpf is in my hair. Now, I don't know what strumpf means. It's just a term some brothas gave me.”
“There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.”
“When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.”

Source : Bette Greene (2000). “Summer of my German soldier”
“Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved with them in the momentary tension of their capture or demise.”
“It's incredible how the human body is. That it could do so much. That it can go beyond the everydayness of life; That it can be extraordinary and powerful, and harbor a spirit of hope and pure will.”
“Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.”

Source : John Brown (1866). “Expository discourses on the first epistle of ... Peter”, p.117
“If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.”

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