Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
Eric S. RaymondIn 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.
Eric S. RaymondA software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain
Eric S. Raymond