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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."

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"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."

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"Good thinking makes you more attractive to yourself and others."

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"An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks."

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"Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts."

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"If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking."

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"If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!"

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"Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types."
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"The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1."
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