“The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.” DoneChallengesSourceProjectsAlternativesConsumersUsersUser ExperienceOpen SourceWordpress Author:Matt Mullenweg
“You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.” MagicDyingSourceProjectsWork OutDustOpen SourceSprinklesPixiesPixie Dust Author:Jamie Zawinski
“What I do for a living is somewhat like mercenary prostitution. I spend a lot of energy trying to find games to bring to alternate platforms, like Linux and MacOS, and in my free time, I work on various open source projects, and other freebies like that. So I guess I'm a hooker with a heart of gold, sorta.” TryingHeartGamesEnergySourceProjectsGoldVariousPlatformsProstitutionFree TimeLinuxMercenaryOpen SourceHeart Of Gold Author:Ryan C. Gordon
“For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.” KnowsWarSoulHateEvilIndividualNationsAnswersAttitudeEmotionalSourceProjectsNegativeWho I AmPrimariesFrustrationRejectsIntoleranceBewilderedNegative AttitudeUnansweredPrimary Source Author:Carson McCullers
“If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity.” IfsSelfOpinionSelf EsteemIdentitySourceAmountInvolvedProjectsFoundationBoundsEsteemInevitableSooner Or LaterComes And GoesUnstableUnreliableBatteredMarkersOthers OpinionsInevitable ChangeMoney Comes And Goes Author:Dalai Lama
“While sabotaging our reliable energy sources, Obama is also throwing as much federal money as he can at failed green energy projects, which are so ill-conceived that a reasonable person might conclude this goal is to waste money. Solyndra wasn't the only such failed enterprise, as we've shown. There were a dozen others, and despite these failures and the unconscionable waste, he has revealed nothing but a defiant determination to double down and spend more on other such projects. It's mind-blowing.” MindPersonsMightEnergyGoalSourceWasteProjectsDeterminationDown AndGreenIllDespiteReasonableEnterpriseThrowingDozenMind BlowingEnergy SourcesGreen Energy Author:David Limbaugh
“If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.” IfsWellsLittlesCoursesFoundBlackInformationMaterialsSourceEasierLuckyProjectsLettersDifficultyCome UpHolesMemoirPrimariesNonfictionInherentDiariesBlack HolePrimary Source Author:Debra Dean
“The audience is the source of the energy that I project back to them.” EnergyAudienceSourceProjects Author:Blixa Bargeld
“The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.” BigsSourceProjectsScalesIncomeSculptureLarge Scale Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“The bigger problem still is that it determines in many ways what movies get made in the first place. Because as sources of finance are considering a project, they ask themselves, "Does this lend itself to a simplistic marketing approach which will guarantee a big opening weekend?" As a movie-goer, I think that's tragic, because when you look back at those movies that made us fall in love with movies in the first place, most of them were not high-concept, and most of them would not have "won their weekend."” ThinkingWayFirstsLooksDoeMadeStillsProblemBigsFallAsksSourceProjectsApproachConceptsBiggerFalling In LoveMarketingDetermineOpeningFinanceGuaranteesTragicWeekendConsideringBigger Problems Author:Curtis Hanson
“While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got ubiquitous. So it helped kernel development, but there were still pain points.” StillsUsePainSourceDevelopmentProjectsCoreKernelOpen Source Author:Linus Torvalds
“The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.” YearsKindLittlesReasonGovernmentInterestSimpleFailingSourceCostWasteBenefitsProjectsTestsVotePressureCourtHeavyCampaignsSupremeOptimisticPrimariesContributionSupreme CourtLegislatorsBeing OptimisticContributorsPrimary SourceCampaign Contributions Author:Robert H. Frank
“It's as if, for Schopenhauer and perhaps Kant, the mind is there up and running, equipped with its categories and concepts that it then projects or smears, as it were, over what impinges upon it from the outside. This is not the image you find in, for example, Chuang Tzu: minds and nature are inseparably fused in an ever-changing whole of experience that, so to speak, constantly wells up from an indescribable source in a process that Daoists call 'the way' or 'the course'.” IfsWayMindWellsWholeRunningCoursesSpeakProcessExampleSourceProjectsConceptsCategoriesIndescribable Author:David E. Cooper
“There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.” PeopleWayChangedSourceProjectsApproachAreasBiggerPracticalsVisibleSoftwareIdeologicalLinuxOpen Source Author:Linus Torvalds