"Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around."

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Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.37, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Eric S. Raymond

#Smart Quotes #Data Quotes #Dumb Quotes

“You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.”
“Some Westerners [â€¦] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.”
“At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.”
“Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.”
“Things only 'show up' for us as they do, as Heidegger would put, in and through practical engagements with the world that enable objects to have significance and salience - as hammers, pots, trees or whatever.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.”
“The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.”
“Find your centre and live in it.”

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