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  1. "Ubiquity, like great power, requires of us great responsibility. It changes our duties, and it changes the kind of people we have to be to meet those duties. It is no longer enough for hackers to think like explorers and artists and revolutionaries; now we have to be civil engineers as well, and identify with the people who keep the sewers unclogged and the electrical grid humming and the roads mended."

    #EricRaymond, 2018

    web.archive.org/web/2023020413

    #hackers #CivilEngineering #SoftwareEngineers

  2. "Ubiquity, like great power, requires of us great responsibility. It changes our duties, and it changes the kind of people we have to be to meet those duties. It is no longer enough for hackers to think like explorers and artists and revolutionaries; now we have to be civil engineers as well, and identify with the people who keep the sewers unclogged and the electrical grid humming and the roads mended."

    #EricRaymond, 2018

    web.archive.org/web/2023020413

    #hackers #CivilEngineering #SoftwareEngineers

  3. "Ubiquity, like great power, requires of us great responsibility. It changes our duties, and it changes the kind of people we have to be to meet those duties. It is no longer enough for hackers to think like explorers and artists and revolutionaries; now we have to be civil engineers as well, and identify with the people who keep the sewers unclogged and the electrical grid humming and the roads mended."

    #EricRaymond, 2018

    web.archive.org/web/2023020413

    #hackers #CivilEngineering #SoftwareEngineers

  4. "Ubiquity, like great power, requires of us great responsibility. It changes our duties, and it changes the kind of people we have to be to meet those duties. It is no longer enough for hackers to think like explorers and artists and revolutionaries; now we have to be civil engineers as well, and identify with the people who keep the sewers unclogged and the electrical grid humming and the roads mended."

    #EricRaymond, 2018

    web.archive.org/web/2023020413

    #hackers #CivilEngineering #SoftwareEngineers

  5. It would fascinating to see a rigorous academic review comparing and contrasting Wikipedia and its classic cathedral-building development model, with the bazaar of the Smallest Federated Wiki (#FedWiki) network.

    (For those unfamiliar with it, I'm referencing the classic #OpenSource evangelism piece 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar', by #EricRaymond:
    catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedr )

  6. "A 'defect attractor' of a program, language, API, or any other kind of software construct is a feature which, while possibly not bad in itself, spawns defects in the design or #code near it."

    esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8042

    #esr #ericraymond