Eric S. Raymond Quotes
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
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I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.
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The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.
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I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.
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I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.
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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
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In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.
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Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
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If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
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There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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I soon saw that feminists who supported the 'Primary Parent Theory' were not in favor of equality of opportunity, but of unequal opportunism.
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There are so many movies people make just to make money.
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There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.
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I've always had some sort of affinity for the ends of things. It depends on the song, I try to explore it in different ways. Sometimes when I think about death I'm thinking of it as a physical character that can teach you things and sometimes I'm thinking of it in a finite sense and other times I'm just asking questions that I can't answer. I don't really like to state my personal belief, because I change my mind too often, but I imagine something peaceful. Whether it's a rest or another world or some kind of eternity, it doesn't seem like a scary thing.
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Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
