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"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die."

Daniel Burnham

"The best way to get money isn't to find some VCs to beg, borrow, or steal from; the best way to get money is to make something people will pay for." - Giles Bowkett

Source: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2006/12/tale-of-two-startups.html

Most embedded device vendors don't release any source. Then someone from the community nags the vendor's legal department for six months and eventually gets a partial source tree that doesn't compile.

My impression is that companies treat legal compliance not as a hard requirement but as a risk management exercise; if (cost of GPL lawsuit) * (probability of GPL lawsuit) < (cost of VxWorks license) * (number of units), use Linux.

- Wes Felter

Source: http://www.linuxjournal.com/comment/reply/1000164/209612

Rosenberg's Law: "Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new."

Rosenberg's Corollary: "The only software that's worth making is software that does something new."

- Scott Rosenberg, from Dreaming in Code, Crown Publishing, 2007

"Open sourcing is the most important decision we’ve made in seven years of Second Life development. While it is clearly a bold step for us to proactively decide to open source our code, it is entirely in keeping with the community-creation approach of Second Life" - Cory Ondrejka, CTO of Linden Lab

"If there isn't enough food in the fridge, do you say 'the store must be down?'" - Greg Elin

Source: said at a conference.