Eric S. Raymond

The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

Given a big enough lever, you can move the world.

If you want to make a contribution, you need to be part of a community.

The value of a program is proportional to the number of people who use it.

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.

The most effective way to communicate is to share code.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite.

Release early, release often.

The cathedrals are built by the few, the bazaars are built by the many.

You can't control a project, but you can control its environment.