Bruce Perens quotes

“No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.”
-- Bruce Perens

#Running Quotes #Long Quotes #Care Quotes

“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.”
-- Bruce Perens

#Past Quotes #Years Quotes #Body Quotes

“The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from those of other products.”
-- Bruce Perens

#Information Quotes #Different Quotes #World Quotes

“The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.”
-- Bruce Perens

#Marketing Quotes #Source Quotes #Process Quotes

“Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive and effective in their work.”
-- Bruce Perens

#Steps Quotes #Rubies Quotes #Enabling Quotes

“Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.”
-- Bruce Perens

#Vcr Quotes #Want Quotes #Linux Quotes

“It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news "Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut." On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you.”
-- Bruce Perens

#Believe Quotes #Nuts Quotes #Police Quotes

“It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.”
-- Bruce Perens

#Ego Quotes #Mind Quotes #Ifs Quotes

“The world is beating a path to our door”
-- Bruce Perens

#Doors Quotes #World Quotes #Path Quotes

“By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.”

“I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.”

Source : Source: www.etonline.com

“When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.”

“He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.”

“Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”

Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.

“Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

“The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'”

Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

“You have to trust your body to take care of you.”

“I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.”

“I'm getting older, and it happens. You don't care as much. I don't care about too much anymore. I've got to think about that a little bit.”