A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

  • -- Eric Steven Raymond 埃里克·斯蒂芬·雷蒙

它成功的一个关键因素是,X开发者愿意按照黑客的道德准则免费提供源代码,并能够在互联网上发布它们。

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The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.

开发商,如果他们决定移动一只乌龟,就必须为加强保护乌龟的区域而付出长期的代价,这给了我们管理一个将受到保护的区域的机会。

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

我们不可能成功地操纵我们的地球飞船,除非我们把它看作是一艘完整的宇宙飞船,我们的命运也一样。要么是所有人,要么是没有人。

Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.

不要因为时尚的改变而改变。不要改变你原有的道德准则,原有的理由。他们是你的一部分。

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

我的父母有很强的职业道德,但他们对生活的态度和哲学是:“只要能让你快乐就好。”

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

郊区是开发商推倒树木,然后用它们的名字命名街道的地方。

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

你不能披着失败的外衣爬上成功的阶梯。