Eric S. Raymond Quotes

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.

One of the things I learned very early on was that if you cast the show correctly, and if you've created the right energy in the room, the solution is also in the room. The solution doesn't necessarily come from someone, but if everybody is working in a very steadfast and rigorous way, then everything you're looking for is in the room.

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

Whatever the problem - be part of the solution

I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.

Some of my best thinking is done by others.

Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

The easy solution isn't the solution, it's the problem.

One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.

Our problems are not with the data, itself, but arise from our interpretation of the data.

Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor.

I loved doing problems in school.

We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.

But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now.

We can solve many problems in an appropriate way, without any difficulty, if we cultivate harmony, friendship and respect for one another.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

There is no problem in the family, ward, or stake that cannot be solved if we look for solutions in the Lord's way by counseling - really counseling - with one another.

Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.

Your success and happiness depend on your willingness to help others solve their problems.