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.

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

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.

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

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.

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