Eric S. Raymond Quotes

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.

Eric S. Raymond

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 4, 1957

Topics

WorkWordsCreativeHappyBored

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Ann Landers

PeopleLookTelevisionWillAnything

I'm not real good at romance.

Jeff Bridges

GoodRealRomance

When you get released from the NFL it's not a pleasant experience and I may have sulked for about two or three years. Then I was like, 'You know what? It's time to get back on the wagon.' I have nothing to be ashamed of.

Stephen Baker

TimeExperienceYouBackKnowThree

Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.

Sue Monk Kidd

TimeMomentPeopleAmazingSpeak

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

Tracey Emin

FriendsGayWhoAnyHardly

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

Tommy Douglas

InspirationalCourageWorldBetter

As long as I have beaches, some good friends around me, it's 75 degrees and sunny, I'm good.

Rob Gronkowski

GoodMeFriendsLongGood Friends

I've been in pain for so long now I'm just used to it.

Ronnie Coleman

PainLongNowUsedBeenJust

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

Russ Feingold

TeaAmericaPartyUpBeingEnded

It feels different.... When hip-hop was beginning for me, people weren't making the kind of money that they make now. It was for the love of doing it and having fun with it.

Missy Elliott

LoveMoneyBeginningFunPeopleMe

Journalists constantly ask Metallica if the success of their new album means they've had 'the call' to record a Zeppelin cover album yet.

Antony Johnston

SuccessNewAskCallCoverMeans

Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you used to be.

Artie Lange

LifeSmallYouKnowUnderstandTall

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