Eric S. Raymond

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.