The Cathedral & The Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond

• p 23: “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.”
• p 24: “Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).”
• p 26: “If you know the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.”
• p 27: “Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.”
• p 30: Linux Law: “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”
• p 31: Delphi Effect -> the averaged opinion of a mass of equally expert (or equally ignorant) observers is quite a bit more reliable predictor than the opinion of a single randomly chosen observer
• p 38: “If you treat your beta-testers as if they’re you most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.”
• p 40: “Often the most striking and innovative solutions came from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.”
• p 41: “Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.”
• p 44: “Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.”
• p 49: the best hacks starts out as personal solutions to the authors everyday problems
• p 57: resource marshalling -> different parts in your organization want your software development people
• p 77: John Lockes theory of property -> is an explanation if the ownership of a projects changes -> on a frontier, where lands exists that has never had an owner, one can acquire ownership by homesteading, mixing one’s labor with the unowned land, fencing it, and defending one’s title
• p 85: hackerdom means maximizing reputation incentives
• p 94: “You become a hacker when other hackers call you a hacker.”
• p 120: “Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry”