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• Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

  Linus Torvalds

  Venture, Linux, Economy

  "Linux's Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.drdobbs.com. January 1, 2002.

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• Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Home, Names

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• For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Mean, Way, Firsts

  "The Future of Facebook". Interview with Laura Locke, content.time.com. July 17, 2007.

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• A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.

  Dennis Miller

  House, Want, Woods

  Dennis Miller (2010). “Rants”, p.127, Main Street Books

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• The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people what your product is worth. We were leery to do it ourselves, but being near Vetro when they did, the auction was a good technique for that. No one wants to be first, and the auction proved to people that others were buying and gave them that boost of confidence they needed.

  Bob Horner

  People, Advice, Technique

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• I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

  Theo de Raadt

  Communication, Leader, Trying

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• It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

  Nat Friedman

  Ratios, Software, Higher

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• The huge arrogance of the companies developing GMO crops and their determination to destroy the line of accountability which links the developer to the product is breath-taking. When something goes wrong, as it inevitably will, there will be a great benefit to those who have taken a stance against genetically modified organisms.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Determination, Taken, Gmos

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• When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the protests and the preparations with interest. The bird people were furious, the developers unmovable, and Steven was filled with relief that the fight wasn't his. Nothing here was his... He thought there should have been something sad about how little he was tied up with the place, but instead it felt like freedom. He was free because it wasn't his water here, and they weren't his fish.

  Maile Meloy

  Fighting, Should Have, People

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• From our point of view it's important that Apple not be the developer for the world. We can't take all of our energy and all of our care and finish the painting, then have someone else put their name on it.

  Tim Cook

  Rip, Views, Names

  "Apple wins a user-interface patent that smartphone copycats should fear" by Christina Bonnington, www.wired.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

  Richard Stallman

  Giving, Use, Advantage

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in the American heart and mind, and it informs the aspirations of everyone from farmers to software developers, from detectives to bankers, from soldiers to social workers . . . It defines us as a people, even as we add to its meaning with each new chapter in our national experience and our individual actions.

  Dan Rather

  Dream, Real, Heart

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• As mayor of Milwaukee, I've had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for financial assistance from the city, and my questions have always been: how many jobs are we talking about and are these family-supporting jobs.

  Tom Barrett

  Jobs, Talking, Cities

  "Barrett Can't Name One Policy He'd Pursue to Create Jobs in Wisconsin". Interview with John McCormack, www.weeklystandard.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.

  James Chanos

  Real, Hong Kong, Loan

  "Jim Chanos' One Big China Regret" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. May 24, 2011.

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• Today there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices, but you do have to know a bit about what each device is capable of doing in order to approach it as a developer.

  John Beresford Fowler

  Order, Today, Approach

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• The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.

  Paul Feig

  Sex, Fun, School

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 2 of 5)". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

  Aaron Levie

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

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• It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform.

  Sid Meier

  Finding The One, Games, Play

  Interview with Kristan Reed, www.eurogamer.net. June 12, 2004.

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• Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!

  Trip Hawkins

  Summer, Winter, Chocolate

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• We encourage others to find a local Earth raper and make them pay for the damages they are inflicting on our communities... Furriers, meat packers, bosses, developers, rich industry leaders are all Earth rapers . We must inflict economic sabotage on all Earth rapers.

  Craig Rosebraugh

  Animal, Community, Leader

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• With the support of our vibrant web developer community and dedicated partners, our goal is to level the playing field and usher in an explosion of content and services that will meet the diverse needs of the next two billion people online.

  Gary Kovacs

  Two, Goal, People

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• Every developer will want to live in this world…and it’s our job to build it.

  Urs Holzle

  Jobs, World, Want

  "Google's Bold Plan To Overthrow Amazon As King Of The Cloud" by Cade Metz, www.wired.com. March 24, 2014.

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• I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.

  Ray Dolby

  Opportunity, Thinking, Desire

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• In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.

  Sarah Beeny

  Country, Home, Doom And Gloom

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• Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).

  Bill Kraus

  Artist, Cities, People

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