A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

Author: Eric S. Raymond

Author: Eric S. Raymond

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It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them.

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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and t

Author: Malcolm X
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We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hyp

Author: Tim O'Brien
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I wouldn't go back in time to erase you... No. I'd go back just to feel you twice. Then I'd press re

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Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of fam

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Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.

Author: Julie Garwood
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Never mistake arrogance for intellect.

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Bad is never good until worse happens.

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My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my h

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Interpersonal tensions can provide opportunities that transform an early childhood curriculum from p

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Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we

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Very few problems cannot be solved by either coffee, wine or chocolate.

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I'm working on the future, instead of being caught up in where I am today. - Roy Daniels

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You have been my friend... And that in itself is a tremendous thing.

Author: E.B. White
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Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind, rooted in insight. But in its perfection and un

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Just as novice musicians must spend many hours practicing basic skills like playing scales or master

Author: James M. Lang
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I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors i

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We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

Author: Kameron Hurley
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I loved the story but also enjoyed the format of the book, which includes e-mail messages. Janice L.

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I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face

Author: Patricia Briggs
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It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestatio

Author: John A. Widtsoe
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Avoid letting outside influences have a chance to affect your thoughts.

Author: Steven Redhead
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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting

Author: Dorothy Day
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I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree -

Author: Adrian McKinty
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The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.)

Author: Alphonse Karr
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He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

Author: Paula McLain
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Enjoy it, learn from it and more than anything, never take your health for granted. Don’t just seize

Author: Calvin Wade
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Experience is never at bargain price.

Author: Alice B. Toklas
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It is fatal to forget the Law's of God.

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A society that lives by worldly principles is slowly moving towards a global crisis in all areas

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

Author: Ruby Wax
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A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, an

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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No one is perfect in their life but those who learn from their mistakes is on right path of perfecti

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If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing lov

Author: David W. Earle
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Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.

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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Author: Kris Kristofferson
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All around you are people who need Christ: your family, your neighbors, people you work with or go t

Author: Billy Graham
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That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in

Author: Idries Shah
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Author: Voltaire
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When you do a negative thing, you give a negative impression about yourself to those who watch or ge

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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You may not like what I see but I don't like what you do.

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I was beautiful; after all, my skin was as rich and dark as wet, brown mud, a complexion that any an

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All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter

Author: Gerry Cooney
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Whatever comes to you in a cheap way will vanish in a cheap way. Be patient and earn it the hard way

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Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an uncon

Author: Thomas Aquinas
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Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate

Author: Renzo Piano
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Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildi

Author: Bob Feller
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Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

Author: Henriette Anne Klauser
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So tr

Author: Jacob deGrom
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Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as

Author: Wallace Stegner
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Sometimes in the great soundtrack of our lives there are no words, there are only emotions; I believ

Author: Anonymous
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Every crowd has a silver lining.

Author: P. T. Barnum
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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

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American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated i

Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The universe is talking. All we have to do is stop and listen.

Author: Joseph Inzirillo
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The numbness will go away, he thought. It'll take time, but I'll do it, or Faber will do it for me.

Author: Ray Bradbury
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We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capita

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What do you do?" I ask. "I live.""I live" is not an answer, until I think about it. Maybe it's the p

Author: Jewel E. Ann
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a c

Author: Iain Duncan Smith
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If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your chi

Author: Bill Nye
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Then find out what your sword is - find your own advantage - and wear it proudly.

Author: Chris Colfer
Quote #107920

What we have deeply loved we can never lose, it remains in our heart for ever.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alon

Author: Emily Carr
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If we do not laugh, we will cry. Crying will only make us hotter and sweatier. We Jews like to joke

Author: Jane Yolen
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Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straig

Author: Hunter S. Thompson
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Visits always give pleasure--if not the arrival, the departure.

Author: Portuguese Proverb
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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On

Author: Charles Baudelaire
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I'm convinced my heart knew who it belonged to, long before I met her.

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People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely dif

Author: Sue Monk Kidd
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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

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They passed a couple of guys making a bronze windup toy. At least that’s what it looked like. It was

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If you hate something, the best way to beat it is to be better than anyone else in it.

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When I ache to live, my mind loves to stay with the peaceful whiteness of a pigeon’s care...in bound

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God is dead and I am his replacement.

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You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and get

Author: Darynda Jones
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I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All that we know who lie in gaol Is that

Author: Oscar Wilde
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Absolute love, heals absolutely.

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Dreams and visions are important not only because of the energy and passion they generate but also b

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The riot screws didn’t give a monkey’s about the state he was in, no sir. They dragged him by his ha

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There is one truth that we all are born with, The Death. In between the birth and the death, we are

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Movies and television may be influencing writers to write more visually, using immediate scenes with

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It had been a winter of deadening seriousness, when all the illusions and bright dreams of my early

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You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your

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Quote #91684

You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.

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I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of reli

Author: Mohammed Morsi
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My architecture is the architecture of survival.

Author: Frei Otto
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Author: Walter Scott
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The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for wh

Author: Idries Shah
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Real love is booty grabbin

Author: Janey McGregor
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Christmas is a great time to recommit to each other and our communities.

Author: James Lankford
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Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new ki

Author: Yaa Gyasi
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There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a

Author: Ben Carson
Quote #480031

Patriots don't let their nation default.

Author: Gary Ackerman
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If you are reading this... I'm dead so far probably or still alive who knows?It's bad day in bad tim

Author: Deyth Banger
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Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it's

Author: Frank Bruni
Quote #205594

Your greatest weapon is your MIND! Lock and load it with the greatest ammunition

Author: Unknown
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What's your name?"what?" i asked, squinting at the light.your name." I reconized Dr. Olendzki peerin

Author: Richelle Mead
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We all have our own rhythms to walk to.

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